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The fpout hole is in the top of the neck. In 

 refpecl to the number and fite of the fins, it agrees 

 with the dolphin. 



The color of the back is black, but on each Color. 

 fhoulder is a large white fpot, the fides marbled 

 with black and white, the belly of a fnowy white- - 

 nefs. 



Thefe fometimes appear on our coafts, but are Place. 

 found in much greater numbers off the North Cape 

 in Norway 1 whence they are called the North 

 Capers, Thefe and all other whales are obferved 

 to fwim againft the wind, and to be much disturb- 

 ed, and tumble about with unufual violence at the 

 approach of a ftorm. 



Linnaeus and Artedi fay, that this fpecies is fur- 

 nifhed with broad ferrated teeth, which as far as 

 we have obferved, is peculiar to the Jhark tribe. 

 We therefore fufpect that thofe naturalifts have 

 had recourfe to Rondektius* and copied his erro- 

 neous account of the teeth: Sir Robert Sibbald^ 

 who had opportunity of examining and figuring 

 the teeth of this fifh, and from whom we take than 

 part of our defcription, giving a very different ac- 

 count of them. 



It will be but juftice to fay, that no one of our 

 countrymen ever did fo much towards forming a 

 general natural hiftory of this kingdom as Sir Robert 

 Sibbald: he fketched out a fine outline of the 

 Zoology of Scotland^ which comprehends the great- 

 eft part of the Englljh animals, and, we are told, 



had 



