484 ACCOUNT OP THE ARCTIC REGIONS. 



Bal.bnoptera Juhartes, (La Cepede.) — Balcena Boops 

 of Llnne, or Firmer of the Whale-fishers. 



Length about 46 feet ; greatest circumference of 

 the body about 20 feet ; dorsal protuberance or fin 

 about two feet and a half high ; pectoral fins 4 or 5 

 feet long, externally, and scarcely a foot broad ; tail 

 about 3 feet deep, and 10 broad ; whalebone, about 

 300 laminae on each side, the longest about 18 in- 

 ches in length ; the under-jaw about 15 feet long, 

 or one-third of the whole length of the animal ; 

 sulci about two dozen in number ; two external 

 blow-holes ; blubber on the body 2 or 3 inches 

 thick, under the sulci none. 



In the Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, a de- 

 scription of a whale, corresponding, in its dimensions 

 at least, with the Balaana Boops, has been given to 

 the public, by my friend Mr P. Neill, Edinburgh * 

 This whale was stranded on the banks of the Forthy 

 near Alloa, and had been considerably mutilated 

 before Mr Neill had an opportunity of examining 

 it. It is considered by him a Balaena Rostrata. 

 From his valuable paper part of the above descrip- 

 tion is taken, which differs so much from a Bostrata 

 noticed below, particularly in its larger dimensions, 

 and in the greater proportion which the head bears 



• Vol. i. p. 201. 



