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hath no other fins but these two, wherewith he 

 tteen hinuelf, as a boat is rowed with two oars. 



The tail doth not stand up, like the tails of 11 >h, 

 but lit th hori/ontally, as that of the Dolphin, c. 

 and it is three and a half* or four fathoms broad. 

 The head is the third part of the whole animal, 

 and some have it still bigger. On the upper and 

 under lip are short hairs before. The lips are quite 

 plain, somewhat bended like an $', and they end 

 underneath the eyes, before- the two fins. Above 

 the uppermost bended lip he hath black streaks; 

 some are darkish brown, and they are crooked as 

 the lips are : the lips are smooth, and quite black, 

 round, like the quarter of a circle. When they 

 draw them together, they lock into one another. 

 Within, on the uppermost lip, is the whalebone, 

 of a brown, black, or yellow colour, with streaks 

 of several colours : the whak-bones of some whales 

 are blue, and light blue, which two are reckoned 

 to come from young whales. .Just before, on the 

 under lip, is a cavity or hole, which the upper lip 

 exactly into, as a knife into a sheath. I do 

 really believe that hcclraMcth in the water that he 

 bloueth out through this hole, and so I have also 

 teen informed by seamen. Within his mouth i> 

 the wh;i. all hairy as a horse's hair, and it 



hangs down from both Milcx all about his tongue. 

 The whalebone of some Whales is ^-.newhatb- 

 ed, like a cimeter, and others like a half-moon. 

 The smallest whalebone is before, in his mouth, 

 and behind towards his throat, and the middle- 

 most is the largest and longest, being some? 



