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finger. On examining them I found them load- 

 ed uiiii tiic spermaceti and oil; and some had 

 corresponding arteries. '1 . >st probably 



lymphatics ; and 1 should therefore suppose that 

 their contents had been absorbed from tin ceili 

 of the head may the more readily suppose 



tliis, from finding many of the cells or chambers 

 almost empty; and as ue : isonably believe 



that this animal had betii some time out of the 

 teas in which it could procure proper food, it had 

 perhaps lived on the supcrabund.i its oil. 



The solid masses are what are brought home in 

 casks for sjKTmaccti. 



The skin in this order \ animals consists of a 

 cutiele and cutis. .tide is somewhat simi- 



lar to that on the sole of the human foot, and ap- 

 pears to be made up <>r ;i number of layers, which 

 separate by slight putrefaction; but this 1 suspect 

 arises in some <1< t being a succc* 



of cuticles formed. It has no deg 

 or toughness, but tear-, ea.sih ; nor do its Ji 

 appear to have ;. m. Th 



: and thick, and in the 



V hale i nal sm i icn sepa- 



velvet, each 



pile :g firm in , > j'i.io ; hut Uiis is not so 



distii-L'-iiisliablf although it 



appears rough from the in numrraUe perforations. 



It La i r;uiele tliat gives colour to the animal; 

 and in parU thai an dark I think 1 have sett a 

 diit\ -coloured substance washed away in tlic at* 

 pautjon or'ih-- eutxlc from the cutis, \unchmuat 



