Class IV. COMMON WHALE. 



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GENUS 



WHALE. 



Teeth none, with horny lamina? in their 

 mouths. 



# Without a dorsal fin. 



Mi>G'7'J>ciJT , oj. Arist. hist. an. 



Lib. III. c. 12. 

 Musculus Plinii, Lib. XI. c. 



37- 



Balaena. Rondel. 475. Gesner 

 Pise. 114. 



Balsena major, laminas cor- 

 neas in superiore maxilla 

 habens, fistula donata, bi- 

 pinnis. Sib. Pkalain. 28. 



Balaena vulgaris edentula, dor- 

 so non pinnato. Raii Syn. 

 pise. 6. 



Balaena. Rondel. 475. Wil. 

 Icth. 35. 



The Whale. Marten's Spitz- 



berg. 130. Crantz's Greenl. 1. Common. 



I. 107. 

 La Baleine ordinaire. Rrisson 



Cet. 218. 

 Balaena fistula in medio capite, 



dorso caudam versus acu- 



minato. Arted. Syn. 106. 



Sp. 106. 

 Balaena mysticetus. Gm. Lin. 



223. Gronlands Walfisk. 



Faun. Suec. No. 4g. 

 Balaena. Gronov. Zooph. 2Q. 

 Duhamel. Tr. des Pesches. iii. 



sect. 10. 4. tab. 1. 

 La Baleine franche. De la Ce- 



pede. Hist, des Cet. Tab. 1. 



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A HIS species is the largest of all animals. 

 Whales are even at present sometimes found in 

 the northern seas ninety feet in length ; but 

 formerly they were taken of a much greater size, 

 when the captures were less frequent, and they 

 had time to grow. Such is their bulk within 

 the arctic circle, but in the torrid zone, where 



