93 GRAMPUS DOLPHIN. Class IV. 



Sir Robert Sibbald, who had an opportunity of 

 examining and figuring the teeth of this fish, 

 and from whom we take that part of our de- 

 scription, giving a very different account of 

 them. It will be but justice to observe, that no 

 one of our countrymen ever did so much to- 

 wards forming a general natural history of this 

 kingdom as Sir Robert Sibbald: he sketched 

 out a fine outline of the Zoology of Scotland, 

 which comprehends the greatest part of the 

 English animals, and, we are told, had actually 

 filled up a considerable part of it : he published 

 a particular history of the county of Fife, and 

 has left us a most excellent account of the whales 

 which frequent the coast of Scotland. We ac- 

 knowledge ourselves much indebted to him for 

 information in respect to many of those fish, 

 few of which frequent the southern seas of these 

 kingdoms, and those that are accidentally cast 

 ashore on our coasts, are generally cut up by 

 the country people, before an opportunity can 

 be had of examining them. 



