Size. 
Defer. 
Teeth, 
44 BLUNT-HEADED CACHALOT. Clafs IV. 
nifhed whalebone, Dont les Dames font aujourdhuy 
leurs buftes, et arrondiffent leurs verdugades*, by 
which ity appears, that this commodity was but 
newly known at that time in France. He adds, that 
the tongue was very good eating, and bath that and 
the flefh ufed to be falted for provifion. 
Genus II. Cetaceous Fifh, with teeth in the lower 
jaws only. CacHALoT. 
Sp. 1. ‘The BLUNT-HEADED CACHALOT. 
" @ Fith of this kind was caft afhore on Blyth fand, 
. Fanuary 30, 1762; its length was fifty-four 
feet, the breadth fourteen: the upper jaw was five 
feet longer than the lower, whofe length was ten 
feet. 
The head was of a moft enormous fize, very thick, 
and above one-third the fize of the Hfh: the end of 
the upper jaw was quite blunt, and near eight feet 
hich: the fpout hole was placed near the end of it. 
The teeth were placed in the lower jaw, eighteen 
on each fide, all pointing outwards ; in the upper jaw 
oppofite to them were an equal number of cavities, 
in which the ends of the teeth lodged when the 
mouth was clofed. The teeth, figured in plate ii. 
No. 2, was eight inches long, the greateft circum- 
* Belon de la nat. Sc. des Poiffins, ¥555, p- 6, by which it 
appears that the Frexch were acquainted with that article at lei 
forty years before we were. 
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