MAMMALIA. 



CETE. 



Cachalot. 



361 



799 



mifc. pifc. ii. 14. Egede, groenl. 54. Anderf. ifl. 232. Crahtz, groenl. 148. — Spermaceti "Whale. 

 Brown, jam. 459. 



|8. White Blunt-nofeJ Cachalot. — 2. /3. Ph. macrocephalus albicans. 



Of a whitifh colour, with a fmooth back. 



Balaena albicans, Weifs fifch. Klein, mifc. pifc. ii. 12. — Cetus albicans. Br uT. regn. an 



n. 2. — Cetus albus. Raj. pifc. 11. — Hvid fifch, Poifon blanc. Egede, groenl. 55. 

 Mart, fpitzb. 94. 



59- 

 Weils, filch. 



% Grey Bluntnofed Cachalot. — 2. y. Ph. macrocephalus cinercus. 



Of a blackifh afh colour, with a hump on the back. 



Cetus Novae-angliae, having two fins, the pipe on the neck, and a hump on the back. BrifT, 

 regn. an. 360. n. 3. — Balaena Dudleji, Klein, mifc. pifc. ii. 15. 



The black variety of this fpecies is found in the European feas, the White in Davifes Straits, and 

 the Grey on the coafls of New England.- — The black variety grows to above fixty feet long, and 

 thirty-fix feet in circumference ; the head is exceedingly thick, and the lower jaw, which is fmaller 

 than the upper, has forty-fix teeth, in two rows, which rife between two and three inches above the 

 gums, and are received ' into an equal number of hollows, or fockets, in the upper jaw, when the 

 mouth is' fhut ; the female teats are retractile. The fubfbnce improperly named fpermaccti is pro- 

 cured from this animal, being contained in particular cavities of the bones of the head, which are 

 covered with the common integuments or fkin; and from this variety, or another of the fame fpecies, 

 the finer Whale oil, called fpermaceti oil, or white oil, is extracted ; hence it is found in the fouthern 

 feas along the coafls of Brafil, Patagonia, and in the Pacific Ocean, in which places a very extenfive • 

 fifhery is now carried on from Britain. According to Dr Schwediauer, Phil. Tranf. 17S3, P. i. n. 1 j, 

 the perfume called ambergreafe is the hardened faeces, or fcybala, ejected from this animal when lick, 

 large quantities having been found in its intellines. The fame gentleman informs us, that it feeds 

 chiefly on the Eight-legged Cuttle-fiih, or Sepia oftopodia. 



The white variety refembles the Common Whale, but has the head of a fharpcr form.; it is about, 

 fifteen or fixteen feet long, and of a yellowiih white colour : The teeth are comprefled, fomewhat 

 crooked inwards, and rounded at the ends. 



The grey variety grows to fixty, and even feventy, feet long, by thirty or forty in circumference ; 

 has a very large head, with very fmall eyes ; the lower jaw is much narrower than the upper, and is 

 furnifhed with a confiderable number of teeth, which are received into fockets of the upper jaw 

 when the mouth is fhut. This variety agrees with the firfl; in having a hump oa the back, whicb„ 

 rifes about a foot above. the, general furface. 



3. Sharp nofed Cachalot. — 3. Phyftler mi crops. 3. 



Has a long fin on the back, and the upper jaw is longer than the under. Art. gen. 74. 

 fyn. 1 04. . 



a. Hook-toothed 'Sharp- nofed Cachalot. — 3. a. Ph. micr.jalcidcntatus. 



The teeth are (harp, and confiderably bent. 

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