APPENDIX B. 



[miscellaneous papers. MS. SLOANE 1 847, 

 FOL. 5 6-5 7. J 



\_See Note 51, p. 32 supra.] 



Praye Request Mr. Johnson to obtayne this fauor of 

 Mr. Bacon who is unknown to mee, to afford mee his 

 resolution to these few queries concerning the whale 

 [wch crossed out] whereof I understand he had the 

 ■cutting up and disposure whether there were any 

 spermacetie found, or made out of other parts beside the 

 head ; if soe, of what parts & out of what most : and 

 whether any out of the meere fleshie parts whether that 

 wch runne from it about the shoare came out of the 

 mouth. 



\^Not signed or dated.] 



REPLY. 



Sr in Answer to your questions conserninge the whale, 

 I founde noe Sperme but in his heade and that after I 

 had taken off his scalpe one tonn weight [or more 

 written above] of a nexuous substance, we found in the 

 circumference as large as a small coach wheele in the 

 middle part certain round pieces of Sperm as bigge as a 

 mans fist some as large as eggs and on the out side of 

 the said rounds, flakes as large as a mans head in forme 

 like hony combs being very white and full of oyle. And . 



