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with fomething about three yards long, and like 

 a monftrous broad Sword, iffuing from his Nofe, 

 and not with his Tail, as is commonly reported. 

 In coming Northward, home for Kngland^ we 

 faw four or five of thefe Leviathans, fvvimming 

 all together, (a thing not very com.mon) not above 

 ten yards off from our Ship : They were of a 

 brownifh colour, about twelve yards in length, 

 and two yards in diameter, at the middle, or bet- 

 ter. I cannot find any reafon, why a Grampus 

 fliould not be deemed of the Whale-kind, though 

 he has no blowing Hole, to make the Water 

 fpout up, out of his Head like a Fountain : Pray 

 why fhould a blowing Hole be fo effential to 

 Whales ? A Friend of mine has fince allured me, 

 that a Grampus has a Blowing Hole, and that he 

 has frequently feen him fpout up the Water like a 

 Fountain, about three yards high ; a fight I had 

 never the fortune to behold. Sir Ham Sloan fays. 

 They have two Spouting-holes, vid. his Natural 

 Hiftory of, and Voyage to 'Jamaica^ page 5. 



20. However, it puts me in mind, That fe- 

 venteen or eighteen years ago, a dead Whale was 

 caft up on fhore, at High Water Mark, four 

 miles from Burgh ^ in Uncolnjlnre^ which I (with 

 thoufands of others) went down to vifit, out of 

 pure curiofity. It was a Male Fifli, having a fair 

 Fizzle, or Penis, not unlike a Man's. It was 

 thirty-five foot from Nofe-end to Tail-end, and 



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