14 Ocean between Europe and America. 



however foon outwent her, when they were tired 

 with flaring at her. They are from four to 

 eight feet long, have a bill like in fhape to that 

 of a goofe, a white belly, and leap up into the 

 air frequently four feet high, and from four to 

 eight feet in length ; though their fnoring indi- 

 cates the effort which a leap of that nature cofts 

 them. Our failors made many vain attempts 

 to ftrike one of them with the harp iron from the 

 forecaftle, when they came within reach, but 

 their velocity always eluded their fkilL 



ANOTHER cetaceous fifli, of the Dolphin kind, 

 * with which we met, is called by the failors 

 Bottle-nofe ; it fwirns in great fhoals, has a head 

 like a bottle, and is killed by a harpoon, and is 

 fometirnes eaten. Thefe fifli are very large, and 

 fome fully twelve feet long; their fhape, and 

 manner of tumbling and fwimming, make them 

 nearly related to Porpefles. 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 diftance, and knew it 

 by the water which it fpouted up. 



A Dog-fjh of a confiderable fize followed the 

 fliip for a little while, but it was foon out of 

 fight, without our being able to determine to 

 which fpecies it belonged : this was the only 

 cartilaginous fifh we faw on the whole paflage. 



* Mr. Kalm is certainly miflaken in reckoning the Bottle-noft 

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

 fh of that clafs have, and therefore belongs to the firit 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 expla- 

 natory table, n. I. Perhaps it would, not be improper to call it 

 ampullata. F a 



