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five ; the ri5fus or gape very wide ; the tongue fif- 

 teen feet and a half long ; the mouth furnifhed 

 with fhort whale- bone, about three feet in length. 

 On the forehead were two fpout holes of a pyrami- 

 dal form. 



The eyes were placed thirteen feet from the 

 end of the nofe : the peroral fins ten feet long : 

 the back fin about three feet high, placed near the 

 tail, which was eighteen feet broad : the belly was 

 full of folds. 



This fpecies is faid to feed on herrings. 



Butlkopf. Marten* s Spitzherg, tah, 14. 20. Beaked, 



1 24. Nebbe-haul, or beaked Whale. 



Botde-head, or Flounders- Pontop. Nor-^vay, I. 123. 



head. Dale Harvjich, 4] 



'T^HIS fpecies v;as taken near Maldofiy 1717, 

 •^ and thus defcribed by Dak and Marten. 

 The length v/as fourteen feet, the circumference 

 feven and an half; the body very thick, the fore- 

 head high, the nofe deprefled, and of the fame 

 thicknefs its whole length, not unlike the beak of 

 a bird : in the mouth were no teeth. 



The eyes large, the eyelids fmall, and placed a 

 little above the line of the mouth. The fpout 

 hole was on the top of the head femicircular, with 

 the corners pointed towards the tail. 



The pectoral fins were feventeen inches long. 



The 



