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GRAMPUS. Class IV. 



had adually filled up a confiderable part of it : 

 he publifhed a particular hiftory of the county of 

 Fife^ and has left us a mofi: excellent hiftory of the 

 whales which frequent the coaft of Scotland, We 

 acknowledge ourfelves much indebted to him for 

 information in refped to many of thofe filh, few 

 of which frequent the fouthern feas of thefe king- 

 doms, and thofe that are accidentally caft alhore 

 on our coafts, are generally cut up by the country 

 people, before an opportunity can be had of exa- 

 mining them^ 



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