158 



ESCHRICHT ON THE 



Total length .... 



Circumference of the body (at the back fin) . 



„ ,, „ head (at the blow-holes) 



Length of the opening of the mouth 

 From the corner of the mouth to the eye 

 Length of the fissure between the eyelids 

 From the eye to the ear. 



(The orifice of the ear four inches lower than the 

 Prom the point of the snout to the pectoral fin 

 Base of the pectoral fin . 

 Breadth „ „ 



Length ,, ,, 



From the point of the snout to the blow-hole 

 „ „ „ dorsal fin 



Base of the dorsal fin . 

 Height „ „ 



From the point of the snout to the umbilicus 

 „ „ „ pudendum 



Length of the fissure of the pudendum 

 From the pudendum to the vent 

 Length of the vent 



From the vent to the notch of the tail 

 Height of the root of the tail 

 Length of. the root of the caudal lobes 

 Breadth of the caudal fin 

 Length of the penis 

 Circumference of the same at the root 



eye.) 



Feet. 

 21 

 13 

 9 

 1 

 

 

 



3 

 1 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 7 

 2 

 4 

 8 

 11 

 1 

 1 

 

 7 

 1 

 2 

 6 

 3 

 2 



Indies 

 4 

 



6 

 11 



4 



2' 

 11 



7 

 10 

 10 







9 



6 



5 



3 



2 



1 

 11 







3 



2 



2i 



The measuring having been finished, all the fins were cut ofi", whereupon the flensing was 

 commenced, along with the laborious task of removing the greater masses of flesh, and cleaning 

 the skeleton so far, that it might be transported by the steamer to Copenhagen. The blubber 

 was six inches thick on the dorsal, only two inches on the ventral surface. No parasitic animal 

 \A'as discovered upon or within it. Assisted by six or eight men, I spent the greater portion 

 of the day in flensing and cutting away the flesh, two men continually bringing cut-off pieces of 

 blubber to the casks destined for them, two more dragging the great pieces of flesh to the beach 

 by means of hooks and ropes, in order to throw them into the sea. In the mean time I was 

 myself busy in examining the parts cut off, especially the head and the reproductive organs. The 

 whole labour with these parts, so strongly affected by putrefaction, was not only in itself very 

 fatiguing, but, besides, by the terrible stench, far surpassing anything I ever experienced of that 

 kind, it was rendered so loathsome, that indeed a very determined earnestness of purpose was 

 required to make us go through it. Nevertheless it lasted almost incessantly the whole day till 

 after sunset, when we at length proceeded to open the abdomen. 



Scarcely had this been done when our whole attention was attracted by the surprising size 

 of the stomach (the foremost one lined with the epidermis of the æsophagus) thus exposed, in 

 which, before it was opened, we thought that four large and entire seals might conveniently find 



