1 8 Ocean between Europe and America. 



that nature cofts them. Our failors made 

 many vain attempts to flrike one of them 

 with the harp iron from the forecaftle, 

 when they came within reach, but their 

 velocity always eluded their fkill. 



Another cetaceous fifh, of the Dolphin 

 kind,* with which we met, is called by the 

 failors Bottle-nofe, it fwims in great fhoals, 

 has a head like a bottle, and is killed by a 

 harpoon, and is fometimes eaten. Thefe 

 fifh are very large, and fome fully twelve 

 feet long; their fhape, and manner of 

 tumbling and fwimming make them 

 nearly related to Porpeffes. They are to be 

 met with every where in the ocean from 

 the channel to the very neighbourhood of 

 America. 



One Whale we faw at a diflance, and 

 knew it by the water which it fpouted up. 



A Dog-Jifi of a considerable fize followed 

 the fhip for a little while, but it was foon 

 out of fighr, without our being able to 

 determine to which fpecies it belonged : 

 fkaid this 



d 3fh no owl 



* Mr. Kalm is certainly miftaken in reckoning the Bottle- 

 nofe amongft the Dolphin kind ; it has no teeth in its mouth 

 as all the fifh of thai: clafs have, and therefore belongs to the 

 fipft order of the Whales, or thofe that are without teeth. See 

 Mr. Pennant's Britifh Zoology Vol. 3. p. 43. where it is 

 called the beaked Whale, and very well defcribed ; a 

 drawing is feen in the explanatory table, n. I. Perhaps it 

 would not be improper to call it Balana ampullata. F. 



