Class IV. BLUNT-HEADED CACHALOT. 61 



Cetaceous Fifh, with teeth in the lower jaws only. H. CACHA- 



1 LOT. 



Trumpa. Purchafs's Pzlgrimes Its. BriJJbn Cet. zig. 21. Blunt. 



III. 471. The Parmacitty Whale, cr headed. 



Balana major in infcriore Pot Wal Fifh. Dale Har- 



tantum maxilla dentata den- 'vjich, 413. 



tibus arcuatis falciformibus, Phyfeter microps. Lin. fyjl. 



pinnam five fpinam in dorfo 107. Arted. fyn. 104. 



habens. Sib. Phalian. 13. Cafhalot, Catodon, or Pot 



tab s A. 1. Raii Jyn. pifc. Fifh. Crantz, Greenl. I, 



15. 112. 

 Le cachalot a dents en faucil- 



AFISH of this kind was cad afhore on CramonX 

 I/le, near Edinburgh, December 2 2d, 1769; 

 its length was fifty-four f^t 9 the greateft: circum- Size, 

 ference, which was juft beyond the eyes, thirty : 

 the upper jaw was five feet longer than the lower, 

 whofe length was ten feet. 



The head was of a mod enormous fize, very Descrhs 

 thick, and above one-third the fize of the fifh :' the 

 end of the upper jaw was quite blunt, and near 

 nine feet high : the fpout hole was placed near the 

 end of it. 



The teeth were placed in the lower jaw, twenty- Teeth. 

 three on each fide, all pointing outwards ; in the 

 upper jaw, oppofite to them, were an equal num- 

 ber of cavities, in which the ends of the teeth 

 lodged when the mouth was clofed. The tooth, 



figured 



