1 6 Ocean between Europe and America, 



any other kind of blubber. They are often 

 overturned by the rolling of the waves, but 

 they are again {landing up in an inftant, and 

 keep the {harp or narrow (ide uppermoft. • 



Within the American gulf we faw not 

 only thefe Spanijh men of War, but another 

 kind too, for which the Sailors had no other 

 name but that of a blubber.. It was of the 

 lize of a pewter plate, brown in the middle, 

 with a pale margin, which was in continual 

 motion. 



Of the Lepas anatifera Linn. I faw 

 on the 30th. of Auguji a log of wood, 

 which floated on the ocean, quite covered. 

 OiinfeSis I faw in the channel, when we were 

 in fight of the IJle of Wight feveral white 

 butterflies, very like to the Papilio Brafjicoe 

 Linn. They never fettled, and by their ven- 

 turing at fo great a difl:ance from land they 

 caufed us juft afl:onifhment. 



Some common flies were in our cabbin alive 

 during the whole voyage, and it cannot 

 therefore be determined whether they were 

 originally in America, or whether they came 

 over with the Europeans. 



Of Cetaceous fijh we met with Porpejfes, 

 or as fome failors call them Sea-iogs^fDeU 



phinus 



• The name of Porpe£i is certainly derived from the name 



Pone" 



