80 BLUNT-HEADED CACHALOT. Class IV. 



nearly nine feet high; the spout-hole was 

 placed near the end of it. The teeth were 

 placed in the lower jaw, twenty-three on each 

 side, all pointing outwards ; in the upper jaw, 

 opposite to them, were an equal number of 

 cavities, in which the ends of the teeth lodged 

 when the mouth was closed. The tooth, figured 

 in Plate m.Jig. 2. is eight inches long, the great- 

 est circumference the same ; it is hollow within 

 side for the depth of three inches, and the mouth 

 of the cavity very wide ; thickest at the bot- 

 tom, and grows very small at the point, bend- 

 ing very much ; in some the flexure is more 

 than in others. These, as well as the teeth of 

 all other whales we have observed, are very 

 hard, and cut like ivory. The eyes are very 

 small, and remote from the nose ; the pectoral 

 fins were placed near the corners of the mouth, 

 and only three feet long; it had no other fin, 

 only a large* protuberance on the middle of the 

 back ; trie tail a little forked, and fourteen feet 

 from tip to tip. The penis seven feet and a 

 half Ions:. 



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* This circumstance gives us reason to suppose that the 

 species here described was the third variety (•/) of the Physeter 

 macrocephalus of Gmelin and Le Cachalot Trumpo of de la 

 Cepede, p. 212; le Cachalot macrocephale of the latter author, 

 being provided with the rudiment and appearance of a true dor- 

 sal fin. Ed. 



