Class IV. BLUNT-HEADED CACHALOT. «i 



Cetaceous Fifli. with teeth in the lower jaws only, il- GAGHA 



LOT. 



Trumpa. Piirchafs's Pilgrimes les, Brijfon Cst, 229, 21. Blunt- 



III. 471. The Parmacitty Whale, or headed. 



Balaina major in inferiore Pot Wal Filh. Dale Har- 



tantum maxilla dentata den- ^Mich, 413. 



tibus arcuatis falciformibus, Phyfeter microps. Lin. fyji, 



pinnam five fpinam in dorfo 107. Arted. fyn. 104, 



habens. Sib. Phalian. 13. Calhalot, Catodon, or Pot 



tab. A. I. Raii fyn. pifc, Fiih. Cranio Greetil, I. 



15. 112. 



Le cachalot a dents en faucil=. 



A FISH of this kind was call afliore on Cramond 

 IJle, near Edinburgh^ December 2 2d, 1769; 

 its length was fifiy-four feet, the greateft circum- Sis2. 

 ference, which was juft beyond the eyes, thirty ; 

 the upper jaw was ^wq feet longer than the lower, 

 whofe length was ten feet. 



The head was of a m.ofl enormous fize^ very PEscRif. 

 thick, and above one-third the fize of the fifh : the 

 end of the upper jaw was quite blunt, and near 

 nine feet high : the fpout bole was placed near the 

 end of it. 



The teeth were placed in the lower jaw, tv/enty- Teeti*, 

 three on each fide, all pointing outwards ; in the 

 upper jaw, oppofite to them, were an equal num- 

 ber of cavities, in which the ends of the teeth 

 lodged when the mouth was clofed. The tooth, 



figured 



