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ordinary Horn (378) — Conjectures as to its Use (378) — Fables Respecting it (379) — Medicinal 

 Properties attributed to it (379) — Value of the Narwhal to the Greenlanders (380) — Ships Struck 

 by it (380). 



CHAPTER V. 

 THE DOLPHINS. 

 The Delphinidae (381) — The Soosook or Dolphin of the Ganges (382) — The Inia (383) — The 

 Lorelei of the Amazon River (383) — The Tucuxi (384) — The Dolphins Proper (385) — Legends — 

 Symbols (385)— The Common Dolphin (386)— The White-beaked Dolphin (387)— The Bottle- 

 nosed Dolphin (387). 



CHAPTER VI. 

 THE PORPOISES AND WHITE WHALES. 

 The Common Porpoise {388) — The Grampus, or Gladiator Dolphin (390) — Its Destructive- 

 ness (391) — Its Name " The Thresher " (391) — The Pilot Whale, or Caaing Whale, or Grind 

 (392) — Mode of Capturing (392) — The White Whale (393) — Specimens Exhibited in Shows (394). 



