74 . GRAMPUS. Class IV. 



had actually filled up a confiderable part of it : 

 he publifhed a particular hiftory of the county of 

 Fife, and has left us a mod excellent hiftory of the 

 whales which frequent the coaft of Scotland. Wc 

 acknowledge ourfelves much indebted to him for 

 information in refpe£t to many of thofe fifh, few 

 of which frequent the fouthern feas of thefe king- 

 doms, and thofe that are accidentally call afhore 

 on our coafts, are generally cut up by the country 

 people, before an opportunity can be had of exa- 

 mining them. 



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