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H1GH-FIXXKD CACHALOT 



Physctcr Tursio. P. dorri pinna altwima, apice Jentium piano. 



Syst. Nat. p. 107. Artcdi. Gen. 74. Syn. 104. 

 Cachalot with very lung upright dorsal fin, and teeth flat at the 



tips. 

 Cctus tripinnis, dcntibus in planum dcsinentibua. Brut. Rfgn. 



An'm. p. 364. n. 7. 

 High-finncd Cachalot. Pennant Brit. Zool. 3. p . 57. 



THIS is particularly distinguished by the great 

 length and nano\\ form of its dorsal fin, which is 

 placed almost upright on the back, and ^ 

 by some authors to appear at a distance like 

 tlu- mast of a small ship; the animal growing, if 

 we may believe report, to the length of an hun- 

 dred feet. In its general appearance it is said 

 much to resemble the former species, of which it 

 may perhaps be a variety rather than truly distinct; 

 but so much obscurity still prevails with respect to 

 the Cetaceous animals that this point must be 

 considered as very doubtful. 



