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linder-jaw than the physalis. Several individuals, 

 apparently of this kind, have been stranded or killed 

 on different parts of the coast of the united king- 

 dom. One, 52 feet in length, was stranded near Eye- 

 mouth, June 19. 1752. Another, nearly 70 feet in 

 length, ran ashore on the coast of Cornwall, on the 

 18th of June 1797. Three were killed on the north- 

 west coast of Ireland in the year 1762, and 

 two in 1763 ; one or two have been killed in the 

 Thames ; and one was embayed and killed in Balta 

 Sound, Shetland, in the winter of 1817-18, some re- 

 mains of which I saw. This latter whale was 82 

 feet in length ; the jaw-bones were 21 feet long; 

 the longest lamina of whalebone about 3 feet long* 

 Instead of hair at the inner edge, and at the point 

 of each blade of whalebone, it had a fringe of bristly 

 fibres ; and it was stiffer, harder, and more horny in 

 its texture than common whalebone. This whale 

 produced only about five tons of oil, all of it of an 

 inferior quality, some of it viscid and bad. It waa 

 valued altogether, expences of removing the produce 

 and extracting the oil deducted, at no more than 

 60 /. Sterling. It had the usual sulci about the 

 thorax, and a dorsal fin. 



In its blowing, swimming, and general actions, as 

 well as in its appearance in the water, the musculus 

 very much resembles the physalis, from which, in- 

 deed, while living, it can scarcely be distinguish- 

 ed. 



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