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tion of the northern hemifphere ; ; whofe flars, ate} to 
Ptolemy, are 10; accor ing to Tycho, as many ; oe 
to een 145 and; according to Mr. Flamftee 
HINUS, in Zoology, the laft genus of the on 
fhe aoa tribe of mammalia, the charaGer of which 
€etaceous animals. ‘The 3 oe of the delphinus genus, four 
number, are defined as follo 
Proc ody fub- cca. “back broad, {nout bluntith. 
Linn. Fn. c. Turfio, Pliny. Meer febavein oder tuniny 
ae Ni fer ou le marfouin, Egede. Porpoife, or Por- 
pe 
The upper part of the body i in this kind is blueifh black, 
and o lower white ; the head obtufe, with j 
h (the latter of "which are acute), and the 
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hog: it is often feen, likewife, ete nd t 
if che oe hike the dolphin, and this ineenele of the 
animal, in the ee of fome, i is to be regarded as the pre- 
fage of flor rmy weat 
Porpeffes are obterved to yr oe, in vaft 
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as oftentimes introduced to the tables 
even fo lately as the reign of queen 
t was eaten with a fauce i aa of the 
crumbs of fine bread with fugar and vinegar. In the pre- 
fent day, the porpeffe is an obje& of capture only for the 
fake . 2 oil. 
inus. Body oblong, roundifh; fnout narrow 
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Pliny. ‘Porcus marinus, 
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bears a great refemblance to the porpelfe, 
but has a fnout more elongated “ acute, and the fhape of 
the body throughout is rather more flender; and it alfo 
grows to a nauch Y larger fine, the ae feldom exceeding 
three or four feet, and the dolphin meafuring in common 
eig t or ten the colour is rather fimilar in both. 
The dolphin is found in the Mediterranean and Indian feas, 
wounding even the 
ales. ‘The feamen ee its appearance 
as the prelude of an approaching 
ftor 
¢ celebrity which the aia obtained among the 
ancients, from its fuppofed attachment towards the human 
FACE, is be am ciently known. ‘ The dol ae fays Piiny, 
““ ts friendly to man, and pleafed with mufi e does not 
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wind.”? The voice of os dolphin, ane to the fame 
writer, is a found refembling a human Thefe and 
other particulars vai by poets and Mice of antiquity, 
— excited ek nts of veneration in vulgar a to- 
ards this uncouth ‘ahabit tant of the waters: as c alles 
of fact 
tes thofe < are not dif leafing ; but as ee 
are altogether difcountenanced by the obfervations of later 
writers. 
From the teftimony of Gronovius, it appears, that the 
porpeffe conftantly {wims in an incurvated potture ; and this 
very naturally leads to a conclufion that the dolphin, whofe 
orm is ftrikingly ay may {wim 
circumftance tending to 
the dolphin, tranfmitted to 
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ied orca, rofiro furfum repando, deutibas latis Servite, Linn. 
c Mant. ie Pliny. Butfeopf, Marten. Buts-hopper, Evede. 
ramp 
The : amid grows to the length of twenty-five feet, and 
s of an extremely re Age predatory difpofition, feeding. 
salt ger fifhes, and e n the dolphin and the e porpeffe. 
It is aie) in the Mediterranean and Atlantic feas, as wellas 
in both the polar re This Species often attacks the 
whales, whence Fabricius denominates i it Lalenarum tyrannus. 
Seals are its more common food; thefe-it frequently fur- 
prifes while fleeping on the rocks, <diflodging them by means 
of its back fin, and, having aaa aoe ated oo into the. water, 
{eizes upon and devours t without difficulty. 
Levucas. Snout cone ‘btu ee arn upwar rds $. 
no dorfal fin. Pallss. Bieluga, Steller, 
Witt iad — Weiffifch, rene “Weilfifch, “Crantz 
native of the arGic c regions, defcridbed by Pabricits, 
Palige and re ee writers, for it does not appear to have 
been diftinétly known till within a few years. Its form is. 
not sei See cee its at a when full grown, milk-white, 
le rofy. The {pecies is ieee 
oals, the youn 
mit 3 the eyes very {mall ‘and blueith; the gape ioderaie. a 
ai bien na blunt, and not very numerous, Sa 
on each fide in both jaws. The 
hore, and ae body thickeft in the middle. The al is. 
{lightly lobed, the pe¢toral fins thick and fatty, and are. 
marked at the edge into five flight divifions: thefe contain 
the boves of the five fingers which may eafily be felt within 
the fin. The fkin, on cy part, is {mooth aad flippery, 
and the animal in general very fat 
According to Pallas, ae his om) {wims, the tail is. 
bent inwards, in the manne wefifh, and is en ; 
utiful milky white 
appearance of the parent as it advances i In age. 
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-REY, in ne oe a captain, or pon in, . 
the fouthern part of Brazil; which feems to be rather re- 
arded as a frontier diftri&t towards the Spanith aot. 
oa as a regular fettlement. 
DELRIO, Marrin-Antuony, in Biography, a learned 
Jefuit, born at Antwerp in the year 1951, Having attained, 
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