€i BLUNT-HEADED CACHALOT. Class IV. 



figured in plate iii. No, 2. was eight inches long, 

 the greateft circumference the fame. It is hollow 

 within fide for the depth of three inche?, and 

 the mouth of the cavity very wide : it is thickeft 

 at the bottom, and grows very fmall at the point, 

 bending very much ^ but in fom.e the flexure is 

 more than in others. Thefe, as well as the teeth 

 of all other whales we have obferved, are very hard, 

 and cut like ivory. 



The eyes very fmall, and remote from the nofe. 



The pedloral fins placed near the corners of the 

 mouth, and were only three feet long : it had no 

 other fin, only a large protuberance on the mid- 

 dle of the back. 



The tail a little forked, and fourteen feet from 

 tip to tip. 



The penis feven feet and a half long. 



The figure, plate ii. we borrowed from a print 

 in the LX. vol. of the P^. Jr. p. where there 

 is a very good account of this fpecies by Mr. 

 James Rohertjvn^ furgeon. 



This is one of the fpecies which yield what is 

 Spermaceti improperly Z2^tdi fperma ceti\ that fubftance being 

 found lodged in the head of the fifh that form 

 this genus, which the French call Cachalot^ a name 

 we have adopted, having no general term for it in 

 our tongue. 



Linn^us informs us, that this fpecies purfues 

 and terrifies the PorpefTes to fuch a degree as often 

 to drive them on fhore. 



Belsna 



