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iinu nt -like skin In- white or yellow, the thick 

 under skin is of a similar < <>lour. This tli 



t tonsil or tenacious, hut of ;i funu 

 tuie, and of no use as an article of trade. 



The food of the Whale is believed to he .small 



^iiail.s ", which float, in \ast abundance, >n 



%beaurface of the northern seas. Whether these 



at nourishment I cannot tell. 1 



been informed by others that about ilitland 

 a small Whale was caught, uhich had about a. 

 barrel of Herrings in its belly. The middling- 

 si/ed Whales taught at Spitzbcrgen aftbrd se- 

 veiity, eighty, or ninety tv//vA7.v of fat. Our big- 

 gest Whale \\as fifty-three feet long, and his tail 

 three fathom and a half broad. The Whale swims 



ist the wind, like most of this tribe, and in- 

 deed as most large li.shcs do. They are sometimes 

 found diseased and emaciated, having their pecu- 

 liar disorders like otiier animals. The breasts of 

 the female resemble those of a Cow, having simi- 

 lar nipples : they are sometimes white, and some- 

 times speckled M ith black and blue spots, in the 

 manner ot" a plo\cr's cir^r. They arc said r. 

 to have more than one \ming at a time." 



I must now take' the- opportunity of repeating 

 what I have advanced in the Naturalist's Miscel- 

 lany. \i/. " It is to be lamented that iu the 

 poetical descriptions ot' various striking s 

 natural hist*i\, the epithets by \\ Inch mair. 

 uislud, arc. for uant of due k: 



i>ccics of Clio, the Clio liinacina of Linnaeus. 



