110 UNICORN NARWAL. 



face. On the back there are a few weak bristles ; but 

 the other parts of the body are covered with a short 

 woolly kind of hair, of a gray colour, mixed with red 

 and black. 



ORDER VII. CETE, or WHALES. 



Although these animals are all of them inhabitants 

 exclusively, of the ocean, they are ranked immediately 

 after the quadrupeds, from their having warm and re<] 

 blood, breathing by means of lungs, producing living 

 offspring, and nourishing them with milk, in every respect 

 like quadrupeds. 



44. NARWAL TRIBE. 



The Narwals are distinguished by having one or twc 

 long and spiral teeth or horns, and a spiracle, or breath- 

 ing-hole, on the anterior and upper part of the head. 



Unicorn Narwal, or Sea Unicorn. Twenty feet and 

 upwards in length, exclusively of the weapon in front of 

 their head, which is a species of tusk, spirally twisted, and 

 from five to eight feet long, these animals are amongst the 

 most formidable that can well be imagined. They cut 

 their way through the ocean with surprising velocity ; and 

 though, in general, of mild and peaceable disposition, they 

 are said sometimes to have dreadful combats with tin 

 whales. Their weapons have, in a few instances, been 

 found embedded even in the timbers of ships, to a 

 considerable depth. Like the porpesses, they herd toge- 

 ther in small troops, and feed on marine animals of various 



