Class IV. BLUNT-HEADED CACHALOT*. 



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GENUS III. CACHALOT. 



Teeth in the lower jaw only. 



Trumpa. Purchass's Pilgrimes 

 iii. 471. 



Balsena major in inferiore tan- 

 tum maxilla dentata denti- 

 bus arcuatis falciformibus, 

 pinnam sive spinam in dorso 

 habens. Sib. Phalain. 13. 

 tab. A. 1. 



Rail Syn. pise. 15. 



Le cachalot a dents en fau- 

 cilles. Brisson Cet. 22Q. 



Le Cachalot Trompo. De la 



Cepede. Hist, des Cet. 212. 



tab. 10. /. 2. ? 

 The Parmacitty Whale, or 



Pot Wal Fish. Dale Har- 

 wich, 413. 

 Physeter microps. Arted. Syn. 



104. 

 Physeter macrocephalus. (y) 



Gm. Lin. 227. 

 Cashalot, Catodon, or Pot 



Fish. Crantz Greenl. i. 



112. 



1. Blunt- 

 headed. 



A FISH of this kind was* cast ashore on Cra- 

 mond Isle, near Edinburgh, December 22d, 

 1769; its length was fifty-four feet, the great- 

 est circumference, which was just beyond the 

 eyes, thirty; the upper jaw was five feet longer 

 than the lower, whose length was ten feet. 



The head was of a most enormous size, very Descrip. 

 thick, and above one-third the size of the fish j 

 the end of the upper jaw was quite blunt, and 



TION. 



* Mr. Barry informs us that this species is not unfrequently 

 thrown on the shores of the Orkney isles. Ed. 



