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the sea, like seales. The head of it, chiefly the nose, is very 

 like that of the place's head. Its mouth is full of little sharp 

 teeth. He hath a finn on the middle of his back, which is 

 hollow'd out towards the tail, like an half-moon. On its 

 belly are two Anns, like those of the whale ; these finns are 

 not like those of small or little fishes, that are bony, join'd 

 together with a thin skin, but they are all over fleshy, and 

 covered with a thick skin, and made of jointed bones within. 

 The tail is broad, and of the same shape as that of the whale, 

 but it is not cut in, and is crooked from one end to the other, 

 like a sickle. He hath two small round eyes. The greatest 

 part of the body is of a black colour, but the belly is white. 

 They are five or six feet long. They run very swift against 

 the wind, as an arrow : they are generally caught by chance. 

 Because figures thereof are in other books, I did not think it 

 convenient to delineate him. 



4. Of the Butskopf, or Place's Head.^ 



The hutskopfs head is blunt before, where on is a bill or 

 beak of an equal bigness all along, which distinguishes him 

 from the dolpldn, which is thicker behind and more pointed 

 before. The finns are like those of the dolphin, but the fore- 

 most on his belly are likcr those of the Avhale ; its tail is also 

 liker a whale's. He hath a sjJout hole above in his neck, 

 whereout he spouts the water, but not with such strength 

 nor so high as a whale dotli. There is also a difference in 

 the sound of the fishes ; for this, when he bloweth out the 

 water, makes but a small noise ; but the blowing of a whale 

 roareth that you may hear it afar off". His eyes are very 

 small in proportion to his bigness. I have seen them six- 

 teen, eighteen, and sometimes twenty feet long ; their back 

 is of a brown colour ; the head brown and marbled ; under- 

 neath their belly they are white. They run very near unto 



^ This may be the llijperoodon But::kopf ; the Eottle-hcad, a small 

 wluilc, which has once or twice bccu stramlcd on our coasts. 



