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maux than thofe of any other marine animal, fal- 
mon not excepted. 
Befides thefe, the Szra-Unicorn is known to Sea Uni- 
fr¢quent Hudfon’s Bay and Straits, but I never” 
faw one of them. Their horns are frequently pur- 
chafed from our friendly Efquimaux, who proba- 
bly get them in the way of barter from thofe 
tribes that refide more to the North; but I ne- 
ver could be informed by the natives whether 
their fkins are like thofe of the Whale, or hairy 
like thofe of the Seal; I fuppofe the former. 
Species of Fifh. 
The Fifh that inhabit the falt water of Hudfon’s 
Bay are but few:—the Black Whale, White 
Whale, Salmon, and a {mall fifh called Kepling, 
are the only fpecies of fea-fifh in thofe parts*. 
The Brack WuAace is fometimes found as far Black 
South as Churchill River, and I was prefent at the ie 
killing of three there; but this was in the courfe 
of twenty years. To the Northward, particular- 
Jy near Marble Ifland, they are more plentiful ; 
but notwithftanding the Company carried on a 
fifhery 
* Inthe Fall of the year 1768, a fine rock cod was drove on fhore in a 
high gale of wind, and was eaten at the Governor’s table; Meffrs. William 
Walesand Jofeph Dymond, who went out to obferve the tranfit of Venus 
which happened on the 3d of June 1769, partook of it; but I never heard 
of one being caught with a hook; nor ever faw an entire fifh of that de- 
fcription in thole parts: their jaw-bones are, however, frequently found 
on the fhores., 
