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are blunt, round, and slender; the farthest 

 sharp and thick ; between each is a space 

 adapted to receive the teeth of the opposite 

 jaw when the mouth is closed ; the spout-hole 

 is in the top of the neck. In respect to the 

 number and site of the fins, it agrees with the 

 dolphin. The color of the back is black, but on 

 each shoulder is a large white spot, the sides 

 marbled with black and white, the belly of a 

 snowy whiteness. 



These sometimes appear on our coasts, but 

 are found in much greater numbers off the 



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North Cape in Norway, whence they are called 

 the * North Capers. These and all other whales 

 are observed to swim against the wind, and to 

 be much disturbed, and tumble about with un- 

 usual violence at the approach of a storm. 



Linnaeus and Artedv say, that this species is 

 furnished with broad serrated teeth, which as 

 far as we have observed, is peculiar to the 

 shark tribe. We therefore suspect that those 

 naturalists have had recourse to Rondeletius, 

 and copied his erroneous account of the teeth : 



* The Synonym of Nordkaper is affixed by Fabricius in the 

 Fauna Groenlandica, p. 39. to the Balcena musculus, but he 

 adds " De synonymis ejus maxime hcereo, dum etiam apud auc- 

 tores mira confusio eorum." De la Cepede (Hist, des Cet. 103. 

 lai. 2. 3.) gives it as the trivial name of his second species of 

 whale, the variety B of the Balcena mysticetus of Gmelin. Ed. 

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