i8 LETTER I. 



fo odiy drawn out not only upon our common 

 Signs to Inns, but even in Books of credit which 

 feem to carry a fair ihew of Accuracy. 



19. It is faid. He very rarely comes up fo high 

 towards England as the fortieth degree of Nor- 

 thern Latitude in the Atlantick Ocean, though I 

 had the good fortune to fee the contrary in no 

 lefs than five or fix infl:ances, at my return from 

 Ne'^jis to England. He is catched in the follow- 

 ing manner, viz. We faften the Feather-ends (I 

 mean about four Inches of their Tops or Extre- 

 mities) of two Goofe-quilk to a Hook (one on 

 each fide,) which being well fecured to a Line 

 not much thicker than a common thickiih Whip- 

 cord, and drawn after us at the Ships Stern when 

 the Wind does not blow too frefh, makes a fmall 

 ripling in the Sea, not unlike to that of a Flying 

 Fifli, when it arifes out of the Water to avoid the 

 purfuit of the Dolphin ; and the Dolphin being 

 a Fifh of Prey feizes (of courfe) the Hook with 

 the Feathers, and is immediately drawn up into 

 the Ship. He feldom exceeds four feet in length 

 from Nofe end to Tail end : and is a very fl:rait- 

 bodied Fiih. His Head (as to fliape) is exaftly 

 the fame as it is drawn in Pidtures and on Signs i 

 But he being the thickeft at the Gills, and grow- 

 ing taperer in a gradual defcending line quite 

 down to the Tail, his whole fhape may proper- 

 ly enough be compared to a Hand-faw. His 



Head 



