"Teeth, 
#8 OD OOE Perth Ns: (Ciaas 
fin, which Sibbald compares to the mizen maft of a 
fhip. The head abounded with /perma ceti of the 
beft fort. 
_.The teeth of this kind are very flightly bent; 
that which we have figured, plate ii. No. 1. is fe- 
ven inches three quarters in length ; the greateft 
circumference nine: it is much compreffed on the 
fides; the point rather blunt than flat ; the bottom 
thin, having a very narrow but long orifice, or flit, 
hollowed to the depth of five inches and a quarter, 
and the tooth was immerfed in the jaw as far as that 
hollow. 
Genus III. Cetaceous Fifh, with teeth in 
both jaws. Do.puHin. 
Spe ota sama, 719 oO). Sob Es, ieee 
Anois. Arif. Hift. an. lib. vi. Delphinus corpore longo fub- 
~¢. 12. Acrgiv. lian. lib. tereti, roftro longo acuto. 
Pir. 18, Arted. fyn. 105. 
Delphinus Pai, Lb. ix. ¢. 8. Le Dauphin. Briffon Cet. 
Le Daulphin, ou oye de mor. 233: ; 
Below Pai ay ‘ Delphinus Delphis. Liz. fyf. 
Delphinus. Rondel. 459. Gef- 108. 
ner pifc. 319 Caii opufc. 113. Dolphin. Barlafe Cornwall, 
Delphinus Antiquorum. W1. 264. tab. 27. Crantz Greenl. 
Icth. 28. Raii fyn. pife. 12. I, 115. 
ISTORIANS and philofophers feem to have 
contended who fhould invent moft fables 
concerning this fifh. It was confecrated to the Gods, 
was celebrated in the earlieft time for its fondnefs of 
the human race, was honored with the title of the 
Sacred 
