64 HIGH-FINNED CACHALOT. Class IV. 



23. High- Balasna macrocephala tripin- nentes. Sib. Phalain. 18. 



fiNNED. nis, quae in mandibula in- Raiifyn.pifc. 16. 



■ , feriore dentes habet minus Le Cachalot a dents plattes. 



inflexos et in planum deii- Brijfon Cet* 230. 



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NE of this fpecies was cafl: on the Orkney 

 Ifles in 1687. The fpout hole was placed 

 in front, and on the middle of the back was a 

 high fin, which Sibbald compares to the mizen 

 maft of a fhip. The head abounded with fperma 

 ceti of the beft fort. 

 Teeth. The teeth of this kind are very (lightly bent; 



that which we have figured, plate iii. No, 1. is 

 feven inches three-quarters in length ; the greateft 

 circumference nine : it is much comprefTed on the 

 fides ; the point rather blunt than flat -, the bot- 

 tom thin, having a very narrow but long orifice, 

 or flit, hollowed to the depth of five inches and a 

 quarter, and the tooth was immerfed in the jaw 

 as far as that hollow. 



Cetaceous 



