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a. The Grampus^ Bottle-nofc, or Great Porpefs (b)> is fometimes 

 obferved on the coaft. Sixty-three of them came on more at 

 Shore/lone, sgth July y 1734, about noon; lixty of which were be- 

 tween fourteen and nineteen feet long, and the other three 

 about eight feet. They were all alive when they came on more, 

 and made a hideous noife, but were foon killed by the country 

 people, who removed them one by one, with fix oxen and two 

 horfes, and made about ten pounds by their blubber. The fame 

 kind of noife was heard in the fea the night before by the fhep- 

 herds in the fields, when it is fuppofed they were fenfible of 

 their diftrefs in fhoal-water. The maxilla of this large fifh are 

 armed with teeth, above and below. It hath afftula or fpout in 

 the middle of the head, and three fins. It is a great enemy to 

 the whale, and purities it with fury. There is fometimes a 

 fierce engagement, for feveral hours, between it and the mark, 

 called Vulpecula, or Sea-Fox ; a fifh of great agility and fubtilty, 

 which watches his rifing to the furface of the water to breathe, 

 and then gives him many a fevere ftroke with his tail, with fuch 

 force and dexterity, that the Corni/h call it, The Threfher. 



3. The le/er Porpefs (c) is frequent under the promontories, and 

 in the deep bays, upon the fea-coaft ; many of them fporting 



fome- 



(b) Orca. Rondtlet. Fife. i. p. 483. Will. Fife. p. 40. Raj. Syn. Fife. p. 10. Cbarltt. 

 Fife. p. 47. n. 5. Dale. Harw. App. p. 412. n. 5. Balaena minor utraque maxilla den- 

 tata, Orca difta. Sibb. Phal. 6. Delphinus roftro furfum repando dentibus latis ferratis. 

 Artedi. Gen. 76. Syn. io5. Linn. Faun. Succ. p. 100. n. 267. Borlafe's CORNWALL, 

 t. 27. f. i. GRAMPUS. NORTH CAPER. Dale. 1. c. BOTTLE-NOSE. Northumbr. 



(c) Phor;ena. Road, de Fife. i. p. 473. Will. Fife. p. 31. t. A. f. 2. Phocsena vel 

 Delphinus feptentrionalium. Ephtm. Germ. An. 3. p. 25. Dal. Harw. App. p. 419. n 3. 

 Delphinus corpore fubconiformi, dorfo lato, roftro fubacuto. Artedi. Gen. 75. Syn. 104. 

 Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 99. n. 266. Borlafe's CORNWALL, t. 27. f, 2. 



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