|,v tin- name <>f Whalrhonr: rach plat ply 



ed or subdivided at it into long 



.UK! lender britleS, by which i 

 the imdt T iau UK- secure from being wounded by 

 it, and at tin- same lime t be- junction of many 

 iiri-ilrd or suhdi\id< d < as a 



. \\hen the nunitli, after PT< i\in-^ 1'ood, 

 >uddi-nl\ . thus retaining the prey, and per- 



mitting the superfliiouN \\aler to c-se. The 



principal sj. t tlie ^enns llalaiia i tlie II. 



M\Nt:r< tns or i^rcat Wlialeboiie AVbale, M \-ticet, 

 or common Xcrtlieni \\'liale. It is m all bands 

 alhiued to be the ! i' all animals yet 



tun tly knou-n. Befor th( Northern Whale-F 



had reduced the- number of tbi- s, it 



no uncommon circumstance to find specimens 

 <>f ;m hundred, an hundred and t < >r e\< 11, 



accordin , an hundred and fifty feet ill 



lengtb. Such however arc now \vry ranly, if 

 ever seen, and it is not often that th- >und 



of more tlian M . jeventy feet in I'-n^tb. In 



its general appearance the animal is poculiarh 

 uiKouth; the bead constituting n third of 



the u hole ma<s: the mouth is of prodigious width, 

 the tongue measuring eighteen or twenty feet in 



