1 6 Ocean between Europe and America. 



any other kind of blubber. They are often 

 overturned by the rolling of the waves, but 

 they are again ftanding up in an inftant, and 

 keep the fharp or narrow lide uppermoft. 



Within the American gulf we law not 

 only thefe Spanijh men of War, but another 

 kind too, for which the Sailors had no other 

 name but that of a blubber. It was of the 

 fize of a pewter plate, brown in the middle, 

 with a pale margin, which was in continual 

 motion. 



Of the Lepas anatifera Linn. I faw 

 on the 30th. of Augujl a log of wood, 

 which floated on the ocean, quite covered. 

 Oiinfefts I faw in the channel, when we were 

 in fight of the IJle of Wight feveral white 

 butterflies, very like to the Papiiio BraJ/icce 

 Linn. They never fettled, and by their ven- 

 turing at fo great a diflance from land they 

 caufed us juft aftonifhment. 



Some common flies were in our cabbin alive 

 during the whole voyage, and it cannot 

 therefore be determined whether they were 

 originally in America, or whether they came 

 over with the Europeans. 



Of Cetaceous flfe we met with Porpejfes, 

 or as fome failors call them Sea-hogs* (Del- 



phinus 



• The name of Porfeje is certainly derived from the name 



Porce- 



