NARWHAL. 



CLASS IV. 

 FISH of North America, 



N E teoth ifluing out of the upper jaw, direcft, ftrait, long, fpiral, I. NARWHAL, 

 fluck in a focket. 

 Two orifices on the head. • 



Monodon monoceros, Lin. 105. — Faun. Suec. N» 48. — Artedi Gen. 78. — Syn. 108. 50- Umicorn, 



Monoceros pifcis, Wll. Icht. 42. — Rail Syn. Fife. ii. — Worm. Muf, 283. — Miif. Reg. 

 Wafnia, pars I. feft. iii. tab. i. 



With a tooth iffuing out of the left fide of the nofe ; a fnaall one 

 hid under the mufcles on the right : head fharp : mouth fmall: 

 fkin fmooth and black, and fometinnes finely marbled with black and 

 white : the body thick -, fmall only near the tail : no back fin, but has 

 three lumps inftead, and one on the belly : two fmall pefloral fins : 

 the tail divided, and each lobe bending inward like a crefcent. 



The length of the fifh alone, is often above twenty feet ; of the 

 tooth ten feet*. A fifli of fixteen feet had a tooth fix feet fix 

 inches long. One fix feet fix inches long weighed, with the head, a 

 hundred and fifty pounds. There are inftances of both teeth growing to 

 nearly the fame length, i. e. feven feet five, and feven feetf 1 two 

 inches diftant at the bottoms, thirteen at the points. 



* Cr0n(!Z Gnenland, i, 1 1 1. f Muf. Reg, Hafnii?, tab. s , fig. c. 



P 2 Inhabits 



