io. 



COMMON WHALE. Class lY, 



I. 



WHALE, 



Cetaceous Fifh without teeth, with horny laminas 

 in their mouths. 



1 6, Common. Mi/f iWcj. Arif^. hift. an. 

 Lib. ill. c. {2. 

 Mulculus P//;;//, Lib. XI. c. 



37- 



Balsna. Roridel. 475. Gejner 

 Pifc. 114. 



Balsiia major, laniinas cor- 

 neas in juperiore maxillas 

 habens, iillula donata, bi- 

 pinnis. ^ib. PhaUen. 28. 



Balaena vulgaris edentuia,dor- 

 fo non pinnato. Rail Jyn. 

 pifc. 6. 



Bal^na. Roidel. IVil Ifth. 35. 



'I'he Whale. Marten's Spitx- 

 hero. i-o. Cra'rttz^s Greenl. 



.i> J 



1. 107. 



La Baleine ordinaire. BriJJon 

 Get. 218. 



Balisna fiftulain medio capite, 

 dorfo caudum verfus, acu- 

 minate. Arted. Jyn., 1 06. 

 Sp. 106. 



Balsena myfiicetus. Lin. fyji. 

 105. Gronlands Walfifk. 

 Faun, Siiec. No. 49. 



Balsena. Greno'v. Zooph, 29. 



Size. A~|~~^ HIS fpecies is the largeft of all animals : it 



§ is even at prefent Ibmetimes found in the 

 northern feas ninety feet in length •, but formerly 

 they were taken of a much greater fize, when the 

 captures were leis frequent, and the frfh had time 

 to grow. Such is their bulk within the ar5fic cir- 

 cle, but in thofe of the torrid zone, where they are 

 unmoleded, whales are ilill feen one hundred and 

 fixty feet long*. 



The 



* Adanfon^s 'uoy, 174. From this account we find no rea- 

 fon to difbelieve the vaft fiz8 of the Indian whales, of whofe 



bones 



