Bra. Dw EP SH Al ON as 
an inch long, conic at their upper end, fharp point- 
ed*, bending a little in. ‘They are placed at {mall 
diftances from each other, fo that when the mouth 
is fhut, the teeth of both jaws lock into one an- 
other : a fingle one is figured plate iu. No. 5. 
The fpout hole is placed in the middle of the 
head. 
The back fin is high, triangular, and placed ra- 
ther nearer to the tail than to the head; the pectoral 
fins fituated low. 
The tail is femilunar. 
The fkin is fmooth, the color of the back and 
fides dufky; the belly whitifh. 
It fwims with great fwiftnefs: its prey is fifh. 
It was formerly reckoned a great delicacy : Doc- 
tor Caius {ays, that one which was taken in his time, 
was thought a prefent worthy the Duke of Nor- 
folk, who diftributed part of it among his friends. 
It was roafted and drefled with porpeffe fauce, made 
of crumbs of fine white bread, mixed with vinegar 
and fugar. 
This fpecies of dolphin muft not be confounded 
with that to which feamen gives the name, the latter 
being quite another kind of fith, the Coryphena, 
| Hippuris of Linneus, p. 446. and the Dorado of the 
a ortuguefe, defcribed by Willoughby, p. 213. 
* Plaie mi. figs) S 
Wf. The 
