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fporting among the other great monfters of the deep, no way attempt- 

 ing to injure them, but pleafed in their company. Wherever it is feen, 

 the whale is (hortly after fure to follow. This may arife as well from 

 the natural pafiion for fociety in thefe animals, as from both living upon 

 the fame food, the infe<5ls above defcribed. 



The Narwhal has a much narrower gape than the Great Whale j and 

 therefore does not want the ufe of barbs to keep in its food when 

 once fucked into the mouth. It is alfo much fwifter, and would never 

 be taken but for thofe very tufks, which at firft appear to be its principal 

 defence. Thefe animals, as was faid, being fond of living together, arc 

 always feen in herds of feveral at a time ; and whenever they are attacked, 

 they crowd together in fuch a manner, that they are mutually embarrafied 

 by their tuflcs. By thefe they are often locked together, and are pre- 

 vented from finking to the bottom. It feldom happens, therefore, but 

 the filhermen make fure of one or two of the hindmoft, which very well 

 Reward their trouble. 



THE CACHALOT. 



THE Cachalot, often called the Spermaceti Whale, has feveral teeth 

 in the under jaw, but none in the 'jpper. There are feven dif- 

 tinftions in this tribe. The Cachalot with two fins and a black back i that 

 with two fins, and a whitilh back; that with a fpout in the neck; that 

 with a fpout in the fnout ; that with three fins and Iharp-pointcd teeth ; 

 that with three fins and fharp-edged teeth; and, laftly, the Cachalot with 

 three fins and flatted teeth. 



This tribe is not above fixty feet long, and fixteen feet high; 

 more flender, and much more a<5live, than the Whale; they remain 

 a longer time at the bottom, and afford a fmaller quantity of oil. 

 The head is fo large as to make one half of the whole. The tongue 

 is fmall : but the throat very formidable ; and with very great eafe 

 it could fwallow an ox. In its ftomach are found loads of fifh of dif- 

 ferent kinds J fome whole, feme half digefted, fome eight or n: t ^- - 

 long ; for the Cachalot can at one gulp fwallow a Ihoal of fifties 



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