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HIGH-HNNED CACHALOT. Class IV. 



53. High- Balsna macrocephala trlpiti- nentes. <Sz^. Phalain, iS. 



FINNED. nis, qu2s in mandibula in- Raiijyn.pifc. 16. 



feriore dentes habet minus Le Cachalot a dents plattes. 



inflexos et in planum deii- BriJJhn Cet. 230, 



ONE of this fpecies was caft on the Orkney 

 Ides in 1687. The fpout hole was placed 

 in front, and on the middle of the back was a 

 high fin, which Sihhald compares to the mizen 

 maft of a fhip. The head abounded with fperma 

 ceti of the befl: fort. 

 Teeth. The teeth of this kind are very (lightly bent; 



that which we have figured, plate iii. No. i. is 

 feven inches three-quarters in length ; the greateft 

 circumference nine : it is much comprefiTed on the 

 fides ; the point rather blunt than flat ; the bot- 

 tom thin, having a very narrow but long orifice, 

 or flit, hollowed to the depth of five inches and a 

 quarter, and the tooth was immerfed in the jaw 

 as far as that hollow. 



Cetaceous 



