Class IV. G R A M P U S. t^, 



The fpout hole is in the top of the neck. la 

 refpedl to the number and fite of the fins, it agrees 

 with the dolphin. 



The color of the back is black, but on each Color; 

 Ihoulder is a large white fpot, the fides marbled 

 with black and white, the belly of a fnov/y white- 

 nefs. 



Thefe fometimes appear on our coaRs, but are Place. 

 found in much greater numbers off the North Cape 

 in Norway^ whence they are called the North 

 Capers, Thefe and all other whales are obferved 

 to fvvim againft the wind, and to be much difturb- 

 ed, and tumble about with unufual violence at the 

 approach of a dorm. 



Linnceus and ^Artedi fay, that this fpecies is fur- 

 nifhed with broad ferrated teeth, which as far as 

 we have obferved, is peculiar to the Jhark tribe. 

 We therefore fufpedt that thofe naturalids have 

 had recourfe to Rondeleiius^ and copied his erro- 

 neous account of the teeth: Sit Robert Sibbald^ 

 who had opportunity of examining and figuring 

 the teeth of this fiih, and from whom we take that 

 part of our defcription, giving a very different ac» 

 count of them. 



It will be but juftice to fay, that no one of our 

 countrymen ever did fo much towards forming a 

 general natural hiftory of this kingdom as Sir i^^^^r^* 

 Sibbald: he Ikecched out a fine outline of the 

 Zoology of Scotland, which comprehends the great- 

 eft part of the Englijh animals, and, we are told, 



had 



