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hath a cavity, for it is turned just like unto a 

 gutter wherein the water inns, where it licth the 

 one over the other, like the shields or plates of 

 Crawfish, or the pantiles of an house, that lye one 

 over the other; tor else it might easily wound or 

 hurt the under lip. 



" To cut the whalebone out is a particular 

 trade, and abundance of iron tools are used in the 

 process. The lower part of the whale's mouth is 

 commonly white. The tongue, which is about 

 the size of a great feather-bed, lyeth among the 

 whalebone ; being very closely tied to the under- 

 most chap or lip. It is M'hite, with black spots at 

 the edges, and consists of a soft, spungy, fat sub- 

 stance, which cannot easily be cut, being at once 

 tough and yielding; so that it is thrown away 

 by the Whale-catchers for this reason ; otherwise 

 they might get live, six, or seven barrels of oil 

 from it. Upon the head is the hoflcl, or hump 

 before the eyes and fins; and at the top of it an; 

 situated the .spout-holes, one on each side, over 

 against each other, shaped like the letter ,V, or the 

 hole on each side a violin. From these holes the 

 Whale bloweth or spouteth the water; fiercest of 

 all when he is wounded, when it sounds like the 

 roaring of the sea in a great storm, or as we hear 

 the wind iu very tempestuous weather : it may be 

 d at a league's distance, though you cannot 

 see the tish by reason of the thick and foggy air. 

 The head is not round at the top, but somewhat 

 flat, and goes down sloping, like the tiling of a 

 house, to the under lip. The under lip is broader 



