THE NARWHAL. 



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95.— Skull and Tooth of Narwhal. 



well as the right tusk concealed within its bony 

 socket. This rule, however, is not invariable, 

 for females have not only been seen with the left 

 tusk projecting, but the right also, if we may 

 credit the account of Lacepede, who states that 

 Captain Dirck Peterson, commander of a vessel 

 called the Golden Lion, brought to Hamburg, 

 in 1689, the skull of a female narwhal, having two 

 tusks implanted in it, of which the left measured 

 seven feet five inches, the right seven feet. 

 It may be added that Captain Scoresby brought 



