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is more over and above this number, lor they let the least 

 •whalebone of all remain, because they cannot well come at it 

 to cut it out, because it is very narrow where the two lips 

 iiicct together. The whalebone is in a fiat row, one piece by 

 tlic other, somewhat bended within, and towards the lips 

 every where like a half moon. The whalebone is broad at 

 the top, where it stickcth fast to the upper lip, every where 

 over grown with hard and white sinews towards the root, so 

 that between two pieces of whalebone you may put in your 

 hand. These white sinews look like boiled sea-catts or 

 hlack-Jish (in Spanish called Cattula la Mar) ; they are of a 

 pleasant smell, so that we might eat of them ; they are not 

 tough at all, but break as easily as cheese, but they did not 

 taste so well ; when they putrify or rot they smell horribly, 

 just like unto a foul or rotten tooth. Adhere the whalebone 

 is broadest, as underneath by the root, there groweth small 

 whalebone, the other greater, as you see small and large 

 trees one amongst the other in a wood. I believe the small 

 whalebone doth not grow bigger, as one might think that 

 some of the great pieces thereof might come out, and that 

 so this smaU whalebone might grow up again in the room 

 thereof, or as in children the hair grows again when cut off ; 

 but it is not so, for this whalebone is quite another sort, for 

 it is from one end to the other of an equal thickness, and full 

 of long jacks like horses hair. The whalebone is underneath 

 narrow and pointed, and all over grown with hair, that it 

 may not hurt that that is young : but without the whale- 

 bone hath a cavity, for it is turned just like unto a gutter, 

 wherein the water runs, where it lyeth one over the other, 

 as the shields or plaits of craiojish, or the pantiles of an 

 house that lye one over the other, for else it might easily 

 wound or hurt the under lips. I am of opinion that one 

 might use whalebone in any thing that we use boards for, 

 for they make of whalebone, boxes, knife-hafts, walking- 

 sticks and the like. I should think that out of the hair of 



