NO. 1103. NOMENCLATl'IU': OF Tllh: UU .1 IJ'UlOXK W II ALES— Tit V K. 627 



ami iippciiroil iiioro sleudcr in i'onn by tlio pioporliou of tlio thickiioss to t.lio lenj'tli. 

 From tho (extremity of tlio snout to tlie tail was 1(5 feet; iieiir tlio latonil lins, where 

 the hody was thickest, the circumforeuco measured with a cord was 20 feet. It liad 

 two lins on the sides, and besides these also on the back toward (lie tail a certain 

 protuberjinee like a horn, which Hellon calls a lin, but oui' sailors anc piikc — that is, 

 a spinel. The tail was bifurcatiul, and phicod parallel to the hori/on. Tin' whole 

 skin of the body was very smooth; hlack and jxdlMe^id in c(dor on the back, white 

 on the belly. On the belly from the navel to the lower jaw iind all tlio way to tlu* 

 lattunl tins wen^ very many jdica- oi' rid<;«!S, i)rolonj;ed to that len<;Mi which was 

 between the lower Jaw and the navcd. They wer(! siniiliir to those which we see in 

 that kind of woman's cloak called Mdiiloiui-i/oini. In this animal these folds were I 

 inch broad, and the furrows between thc^m in breadth and depth less than an inch, 

 and it appearcMl to mo that tlui learned Hartholinus knew of this corrufjaled belly. 

 A lin was located on the breast on each sich-; the antc^rior part of the same was 5 

 feet from the eye. The real tin of the back was.Si feet from the tail; ilio girth of 

 the body in the ueighborh(»od of this was 12 feet. The vent was 14 feet from the 

 extremity of the tail. The ponis was situated between the umbilicus and th(^ anus, 

 and a little of it hung down; cut out and drawn out by a weight sns])onded, it 

 attained scarcely 2 feet in length; the sheath from which it hung down was a 

 foot long in the middle; from the penis to the navel was 'ik feet; the aperture of 

 th(^ anus e(|ualed one-half a foot. l'"rom the navel to tho extremity of the lower 

 ,jaw was 2U feet; the navel was th(5 size of a list. The tail was il.i feet between 

 the outer ]ioints; whore narrower (coH/rncZ/wr), 2A feet. Tho tail was placed trans- 

 versely. The skin, as renuirked, was black; the (aiticie was like the silk cloth 

 called taffcUi, vcuy thin, but tlu' skin (iqualed in thickness the Im]>crial coin calle<l 

 a dollar, and everywlmre black. 



The head in this animal held tho duo proportion to the rest of the body, and was 

 oblong in form, curving gradually to a certain narrowness l)ack of the snout; the 

 snout was of a form between acute and obtuse, neither extended as in Delphinun 

 and Orca, nor obtuse as in I'liocova. This animal had no spiracle in the head, bnt 

 nostrils in tlui snout, of which more below. Tho form of tlie back was like an 

 inverted ship, and the summit of the back was like a keel, with the body receding 

 irom this running out into the greater breadth. It was possible to see the whole 

 body, which, lloating on the waves, Avas turned now on one side, now on the other. 

 TIk', bi'ea<lth of the lower jaw near the middle was 4A feet^ and had such a margin 

 as.Iohn I'^iber desitribes in the i>laee cited above; indeed, the bony, black, obrotund, 

 thick lip of the Jaw corresponded to those garlands with which the summits of 

 walls are (Towued. Above the lower Jaw tho tongue rocliiuid, which could be 

 contracted, and was 5 teet long, ami near the roots ;5 fi^et broad; in substance, color, 

 and (igure clearly like that of an ox, and almost of e(|ual thickness with fho 

 breadth. In the ujjper Jaw tho nostrils were situated in tho higher part of the 

 snout, distant (i feet M inches from the extremity of the upper Jaw. They wore also 

 8 or. 9 inches long, and divided with a soptum, and wer<^ shut up against th<' septum. 

 Further, beginning from the broader basis and gradually contracting to the narrow 

 extremity, the broadest ])art at the base, with the septum closed, was (i inches; 

 the extremity was 1 inch narrower. Tho inside of tho aperture! was lined with a 

 rngos(! mem))rane of a black color, like that seen in the nostrils of a. horse. The 

 length of tho o|)ening of tho month was 10 feet; the breadth of tho opening was'l 

 feet 2 inches, in which a fish was lying. 



The lateral lins situated in the liroast were f) feet long and 1.4 feet wide. 



The third or dorsal lin consisted of a certain i)0( iiliar glandular substance like 

 that of which the mauinia' aic composed in quadrupeds, but tirnuir and harder; tiie 

 81)ine traversed the middle of this, and it was covered with a black skin. 



