1 8 Ocean between Europe and Americd, 



that nature cofts them. Our failors made 

 many vain attempts to ftrike one of them 

 with the harp iron from the forecaflle, 

 when they came within reach, but their 

 velocity always eluded their fkill. 



Another cetaceous fi{h, of the Dolphin 

 kind,* with which we met, is called by the 

 failors Bottk-nofey it fwims in great fhoals, 

 has a head like a bottle, and is killed by a 

 harpoon, and is fometimes eaten. Thefe 

 fifh are very large, and fome fully twelve 

 feet long; their fhape, and manner of 

 tumbling aiid fwimming make them 

 nearly related to Porpefles. They are to be 

 met with every where in the ocean from 

 the channel to the very neighbourhood of 

 America. 



One Whale we faw at a diftance, and 

 knew it by the water which it fpouted up. 



A Dog-Jijh of a confiderable lize followed 

 the fhip for a little while, but it was foon 

 out of fight, without our being able to 

 determine to which fpecies it belonged : 



this 



* Mr. Kalm is certainly miftaken in reckoning the Bottle- 

 nofe amongft the Do/phhi kind ; it has no teeth in its mouth 

 as all the iifti of that clafs have, and therefore belongs to the 

 firft order of the Whales, or thofe that are without teeth. See 

 Mr. Pennant\ Britifh Zoology Vol. 3. p. 43. where it is 

 called the beaked Whale, and very well defcribed ; a 

 drawing is feen in the explanatory table, n. I. Perhaps it 

 would not be improper to call it Baleena ampuUata, F, 



