42 ROUND-LIPPED WHALE. Cla& Iv. 
The fifhers are not fond of feeing it, for on its ap- 
pearance the others retire out of thofe feas. 
Some writers conjecture this fpecies to have been 
the ducadros, and Phy/eter, er blowing whale of Op- 
pian, Aélian, and Pliny*; but fince thofe writers 
have not left the left defcription of it, it is impoffi- 
ble to judge which kind they meant; for in refpect 
to the faculty of {pouting out water, er blowing, it is 
not peculiar to any one fpecies, but common to all 
the whale kind. 
IV. The ROUND-LIPPED WHALE. 
Balena tripinnis maxillam in- La Baleine a mufeau rond. 
feriorem rotundam et fupe- Briffon Cet. 222. 
riore multo latiorem ha- B. fiftula dupliciin fronte max- 
bens. Sid. Phalain. 33. tab. illa inferiore multo Latiore. 
3 Arted. fyn. 107. 
Idem. Raii fyn. pic. 16. Balena mufculus. Lin. jy. 106. 
HE charaéter of this fpecies is to have the 
lower lip broader than the upper, and of a 
‘femicircular form. | 
That taken in 1692 near Abercorn-Cajtle, was {fe 
venty-eight feet long, the circumference thirty- 
five ; the riffus or gape very wide; the tongue fif- 
geen feet and an half long; the mouth furnifhed 
with fhort whalebone, about three feet in length. 
On the forehead were two fpout holes of a pyrami- 
dal form. ! 
The eyes were placed thirteen feet from the end 
gf the nofe: the pectoral fins ten feet long: the 
* Oppian, Halieut, 1. Lin, 368. lian yf. am. ix ¢. 49> 
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