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GRAMPUS. 



Class IV. 



26. Gram- Orca Plinii, Lib, IX. c. 6. dentata. Sib. Phalan, y, %. 



pus, L'oudre ou grand marfouin. Wil. Idh. 40. Rail Jyn» 



Belotiy 13. pi/c. 15. 



Orca. Rciidel. 483. Gcjher L'Epaulard. BriJJ'on Get. 2t,6. 



pifc. 635. Leper, Springer. Delphinus orca. Lin.Jyft, 108. 



Bchom^oclde, 53. Lopare, Delphinus roftro fur- 



Butikopf. Marten'' s Spit^herg. lum repando, dentibus ia- 



124. tis ferratis. Arted, fyyu 106. 



Bal^na minor utraque maxilla 



Teeth. 



HIS Ipecies is found from the length of fif- 

 teen teet to that of twenty-five. It is re- 

 markably thick in proportion to its length, one of 

 eighteen feet being in the thickeft place ten feec 

 diameter. With reafon then did Tliny call this 

 an immenfe heap of fielli, armed with dreadful 

 teeth ^. 



It is extremely voracious, and will not even 

 fpare the porpefTe, a congenerous fifh. It is faid 

 to be a great enemy to the whale, and that it will 

 faften on it like a do2: on a bull, till the animal 

 roars with pain. 



Tiie nofe is flat, and turns up at the end. 

 There are thirty teeth in each jaw \ thofe before 

 are blunt, round, and flender ; the fartheft fharp 

 and thick : between each is a ipace adapted to re- 

 ceive the teeth of the oppofite jaw when the mouth 

 is ciofed. 



* Cujus imago nulla reprefentatione exprimi polTit alia, 

 quum carnis immenicc dentibus truculentis. Lib* IX. c. 6. 



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