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the external integuments excex^t the flukes of the tail, the dorsal 

 fin, the thumb extremity of the right pectoral fin, the fore part 

 of the top of the head, with the gums, and part of the under jaw 

 with the teeth and lip attached. These parts are all much torn, 

 but such as they were found they are preserved in the Museum, 

 and they will servo to give us some idea of the external appear- 

 ance of the animal. 



Though a whale of the sperm family, with a short and very 

 broad head, it was in appearance a dolphin, about 9 feet long. 

 Like a dolphin, it had a low snout, and rising from it a convex 

 forehead, at the base of which was the large single blow-hole 

 j)laced at about the middle of the head.* The snout was turned 

 lip with a margin somewhat like that of a pig. In the gums of 

 the roof of the mouth there was on each side a series of sockets 

 for receiving the teeth of the under jaw ; these teeth were 

 hollow, conical, and inserted somewhat horizontally in the sides 

 of a very thin, narrow, subcylindrical under jaw. They were 

 slightly curved upwards, so that their points should enter into 

 the above-mentioned alveoles of the upper jaw. The eye was 

 situated low, in front of a very weak pectoral fin. There was a 

 triangular dorsal fin like that of a dolphin, the rather convex 

 front edge of it being inclined backwards at an angle of about 

 45°. The hinder edge of it was more perpendicular and concave. 

 The perpendicular height of the point of this dorsal fin from the 

 back was about 3| inches, and its base 6 inches wide. The 

 caudal fin was triangular, with the terminating edge sinuated 

 from each sharp point to the middle, where there was an emar- 

 gination small but deep. Its breadth at the terminating edge in 

 a straight line was two feet, and the length from the medial 

 emargination that divided the flukes to the neck of the tail was 

 about one foot. Such is all that I can say on the subject of the 

 outward aspect, but the manner in which the points of the teeth 

 are worn show this whale to have been a full-grown animal. 



* As far as I can judge, tliis aperture appears to have been somewhat of a 

 circular form, or it may have been hniate, with the horns of the lune 

 directed forwards towards the point of the snout. 



