ClafsTV. BLUNT-HEADED CACHALOT. 45 
ference the fame. It is hollow within fide for the 
depth of three inches, and the mouth of. the cavity 
very wide: it is thickeft at the bottom, and grows 
very {mall at the point, bending very much; but ia 
fome the flexure is more than in others. ‘Thefe, as 
well as the teeth of all other whales, we have ob- 
ferved are very hard, and cut like ivory. 
The eyes very {mall, and remote from the nofe. 
The pectoral fins placed near the corners of the 
mouth: it had no other fin, only a large protube- 
rance on the middle of the back. 
The tail a little forked, and fifteen feet from tip 
to tip. 
The penis eight feet long. 
The figure plate ii. we borrowed from a print 
taken from the fifh publithed by William Bingham ; 
after directing the tail to be placed in a horizontal 
pofition. 
This is one of the fpecies which yield what is 
improperly called /perma ceti, that fubftance being 
found lodged in the head of the fith that form this 
genus, which the French call Cachalot, a name we 
have adopted, having no generical term for it in 
our tongue, 
D4 I. The 
Sperma- 
Ceti, 
