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CHAP. XL 

 OF FISHES. 



: i.TTTHALES are rare in our feas. A Jper>na-ceti-v?lia.le. (a) 

 V V was cad on fhore about twenty years ago at Hauxley, 

 near Warkwarth. It was fifty-four feet long, and thirty-fix feet 

 broad ; the breadth of the tail fifteen feet ; the teeth about forty- 

 two, large, folid, and white, fixed in a double feries in the lower 

 jaw ; thejijlula or fpout in the neck. 



Another of the fame kind was found dead at fea, about forty- 

 four years ago, by the fifhermen of Creffwell, who towed it on 

 fhore with their boats ; the head and tail in a wafting ftate ; the 

 jaw-bone fixteen feet long; the noftril at this time ferving for a 

 ,fpout to a well at Elackmore-Hall. This whale affords the true 

 fyerma ceti, which is nothing elfe but the liquid fat, thoroughly- 

 refined by art, the head yielding the purefl and befl, and the 

 greatefl quantity *. 



(a) Cete admirabile aliud. Cluf. Exot. 1. 6. c. 17. Cete Will. Fife. 41. Cctus denta- 

 .tus. Charlct. Pile. p. 47. n. 3. Cetus, Oilier. Dale. Pharm. p. 379. Balaena major, in- 

 feriore tantum maxilla dentata, macrocephala, bipennis. Raj. Syn. Pifc. 15. Balaena ma- 

 croccphala, quae binas tantum pinnas laterales habst. Slbb. Phal 12. Catodon fiftula in 

 cervice. Artedi. gen. 79. Syn. 108. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 98. n. 262. PARMACITTT- 

 WHALE. POT- WALL-FISH. Dale. Harvu. App. p. 413. n. 6. SPER.MA-CETJ -WHALE. 

 .Cberlet. \. c. 



* See the curious and ingenious Effay on the Natural Hiftory of WHALES, by the Hon. 

 Paul Dudley, Efq; Ph. Tr. No. 387. 



2. The 



