5° 



COMMON WHALE. Class IV. 



I. 



WHALE. 



Cetaceous Fifh without teeth, with horny laminae 

 in their mouths. 



16.C0MMON. MwWoj. drift, hift. an. 

 Lib. HI. c. 12. 

 Mufculus Plinii, Lib. XI. c. 



37- 



Balasna. Rondel. 475. G^/wr 

 P/>. 114. 



BalcEna major, Jaminas cor- 

 neas in fuperiore maxiilas 

 habens, fiftula donata, bi- 

 pinnis. Sib. Pkalan. 28. 



Balsena vulgaris edentula, dor- 

 io non pinnato. Rail fyit. 

 pifc. 6. 



Baixna. Rondel. Wil.ltlh. 35. 



The Whale. Martin's Spitz- 

 berg. 130. Crantz's Green/. 

 I. 107. 



La Baleine ordinaire. BriJJbn 

 Get. 218. 



Balscha fiitula in medio capite, 

 dorfb caudum verfus, acu- 

 minata. Arted. Jyn. 106. 

 Sp. ro6. 



Balama myfticetus. Lin. fyji. 

 105. Gronlands Walfifk. 

 Faun. Suec. No. 49. 



Balasna. Grono-v. Zoopb. 29. 



Size. 



THIS fpecies is the largefi: of all animals : it 

 is even at prefent ibmetimes found in the 

 northern feas ninety feet in length ; but formerly 

 they were taken of a much greater fize, when the 

 captures were, lefs frequent, and the fifh had time 

 to grow. Such is their bulk within the arftic cir- 

 cle, but in thofe of the torrid zone, where they are 

 unmolefled, whales are {till feen one hundred and 

 fixty feet long *. 



The 



* Adanforfs <voy. 174. From this account we find no rea- 

 fon to difbelieve the vaft fize of the Indian whales, of whofe 



bones 



