5« ROUND-LIPPED WHALE. Class IV: 



The lips are brown, and like a twilled rope: 

 the fpout hole is as it were fplit in the top of 

 its head, through which it blows water with 

 much more violence, and to a greater height, than 

 the common whale. The filhers are not very fond 

 of feeing it, for on its appearance the others retire 

 out of thofe feas. 



Some writers conjecture this fpecies to have been 

 the ^ua-axcg^ and Phyfeter^ or blowing whale of Op- 

 fian, Mlian^ and Fliny^ \ but fince thofe writers 

 have not left the left defcription of it, it is im- 

 pofTible to judge which kind they meant; for in 

 refpe6t to the faculty of fpouting out water, or 

 blowing, it is not peculiar to any one fpecies, but 

 common to all the whale kind. 



19. Round- Balxna tripimnis maxillam In- BriJJon Get. 222. 



LIPPED. feriorem roturidam et fupe- B. fillula duplici in fronte 



riore multo latiorem habens. maxilla inferiore multo la- 



Sib. Phalain. 33. tab. t. 3. tiore. Arted. fyn. 107. 



Idem. Rail fyn. pi fc. 16. Balaena mufculus. Lin, fyjl* 



La Baleine a mufeau rond. 106. 



^T~^HE charadler of this fpecies is to have the 

 ^ lower lip broader than the upper, and of a 

 femicircular form. 



That taken in 1692 near Ahercorn-Caftle^ was 

 feventy-eight feet long, the circumference thirty- 



* Oppian, Halieut, I. Lin. 368. Julian Hiji, an, ix. <:. 

 49. Flin. lib, ix. c. 5. 



five ; 



