CETACEA 



Dolphin. 



Attacking the Vvhaie. 



Grampus. 



The Dolphin has been the theme of many beautiful fables, both in ancient and more recent times, all of 

 which, unfortunately, are fables merely. He exhibits no sunset, changing tints in dying, but the sole 

 change is, that when drawn from the water, his black becomes brown, and his white grey. Like the Whale, 

 the Dolphin nurses its young, and must come to the surface for air. Its snout is very long, and seems to 

 be used for capturing such aquatics as burrow in the mud. The animal's length is from six to ten feet. 



The Porpoises are found tumbling and rolling in both European and American seas. In old times their 

 flesh was deemed a standard delicacy of the table, but is so no longer, having a strong, oily flavor, like that 



of most cetacea. The voracity of 



^^__- this creature is enormous. It feeds 



on various fishes, but its feasting 

 times are when the shoals of 

 rings, and other 

 from the north, 

 five feet. 





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her- 



migratories, come 

 Its length is about 



Porpoises. 



The Grampus is from twenty to 

 twenty-five feet long, and of such a 

 fierce and predacious nature, that it 

 not only destroys the Porpoise and 

 Dolphin, but it is reported that it 

 will even attack Whales. The nose 

 is flat and reverted at the extremity ; 

 and it has thirty teeth in each jaw, 

 those in front being blunt, round, 

 and slender; the hinder sharp and 

 thick. The Grampus is found in 

 the Mediterranean and Atlantic 

 seas, as well as in both the Polar 

 regions; and it occasionally appears 

 on the British coasts. 



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