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up the second time and make brown train-oyl out of it ; 

 others, that think it not worth their vrhile, fling them away. 



CHAPTER XI. 



Of the Finn-Fish} 



The Jiiin-Jish is of the length of a icJiale, but in bulk the 

 whale is three times as big. They know the Jinn-Jish by the 

 iinns that are upon his back, near unto his tail, and also by 

 his vehement blowing and spouting up of the water, Avhich 

 the whale doth not do. His knob on the head is split in 

 length, that is at his blowing hole, through v.'hich he forces 

 up the water higher than the whale, and with more fierce- 

 ness, which is not so high as that of the ichale, neither 

 is the back bended or dented in so much. His lips are of a 

 brownish colour, and like a twisted rope. On his upper lip 

 the whalebone hangs as it doth on the lohale ; but w^hether 

 he doth open and shut his mouth there are different opinions: 

 some believe that he cannot open his mouth, yet this is not 

 true ; but he doth not always run open mouth'd, that the 

 whalebone may not hang out of his mouth at the sides as it 

 doth in whales, or else he can open his mouth if he pleases. 

 Within his mouth, between the whalebone, he is all over 

 hairy, like unto horse's hairs, which grow within to the 

 whalebone that is new growing, and it is of a blew colour ; 

 the other whalebone is of a brown colour, and dark brownish 

 Avith yellow streaks, which are esteemed to be the oldest ; 

 the blew whalebone cometh from young whales and finn-fishes. 

 He is not as black as velvet, as the whale is, but like a tench. 

 The shape of the body is long and small : neither is he so 



^ Pkjsalus a/Uiquorum, Gray ; the Razor-back of the whalers. 



