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phin, they are fo placed as that the teeth of one jaw 
locks into thofe of the other when clofed. 
The tongue is flat, pectinated at the edges, and 
faftened down to the bottom of the mouth. 
The eyes {mall; the fpout hole on the top of the 
the head. 
On the back is one fin placed rather below the 
middle; on the breaft are two fins. ‘The tail femi- 
lunar. 
The color of the porpeffe is generally black, and 
the belly whitifh, not but they fometimes vary; for 
in the river St. Laurence there is a white kind; and 
Doétor Borla/fe, in his voyage to the Scilly ifles, ob- 
ferved a fmall fpecies of cetaceous fifh, which he 
calls zhornbacks, from their broad and fharp fin on 
the back, fome of thefe were brown, fome quite 
white, others fpotted: but whether they were only 
a variety of this fifh, or whether they were {mall 
grampufes, which are alfo fpotted, we cannot deter- 
mine. 
The porpeffe is remarkable for the vaft quantity 
of the fat or lard that furrounds the body, which 
yields a great quantity of excellent oil: from this 
lard, or from their rooting like fwine, they are 
called in many places fea hogs; the Germans call 
them meerfchwein , the Swedes, marfuin , and the 
Englifo, porpeffe, from the Italian, porco pefce. 
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