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296 LETTER XL 



"from a- thoufand to fifteen hundred Weight, 

 and very good for OyL Some of them were 

 full of Young ones. as big as Calves, and fome 

 had from half a dozen to half a fcore Salmons 

 in their Stomachs : But we hope, That fince 

 thefe grand Devourers are deftroyed, our Fifh- 

 ing Trade will hereafter fiourifh, and we are 

 pretty well repaid by their Oyl, for the Da- 

 mage they have done.'* I could heartily wifh, 

 that the Author of this relation had thoroughly 

 explained himfelf in the above written Words, 

 viz. Some of tke^n were full ofToung ones^ as big 

 as Calves : For I fancy, he would then have af-. 

 ferted (as I do in Letter eight. Paragraph twenty-, 

 fix) That Whales, Sharks, Grampufl^es, Porpufr 

 fes, and other huge Leviathans of the Oc^an, 

 do never Spawn, but that. they propagate ' their 

 feveral Species like Brute Beafl:s of the Field, 

 breeding their Young ones in a regular Matrix. 

 Surely the Surgeons and Apothecaries oi London^ 

 derr\\ are a very incurious fet of People, if they 

 did not regularly open fome few of them, in or- 

 der to oblige the inquifitive part of Mankind 

 with an exad: account of the Matrix^ Ovan'a^ 

 and Fi^fus of the Female, as alfo of the Penis ^ &c. 

 of the Male Porpus. Or, if thefe young Porpufles 

 went into the Maw of the old ones, purely to 

 prey upon fuch Salmons as they found there, (juft 

 as young Sharks do in the f-Fef Lidies) the Au- 

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