20 Additional Notes. 



to adhere to fish, and the remora is said to adhere to ships in such 

 numbers as to retard their progress. 



The respiratory organ of the whale, I suppose, is pulmonary in 

 part, as he is obliged to come frequently to the surface, whence he 

 can be pursued after he is struck with the harpoon; and may never- 

 theless be in part like the gills of other fish, as he seems to draw in 

 water when he is below the surface, and emits it again when he rises 

 above it. 



