Chetv. GR AM Pus 55 
The color of the back is black, but on éach Color. 
fhoulder is a large white fpot, the fides marbled 
with black and white, the belly of a fnowy whitenefs. 
Thefe fometimes appear on our coafts, but are Place. 
found in much eréater numbers off the North Cape 
in Norway, whence they are called North Capers. 
Thefe and all other whales are obferved to fwim 
againft the wind, and to be much difturbed, and 
tumble about with unufual violence at the approach 
of a ftorm. 
Linneus and Artedi fay, that this fpecies is fur- 
nifhed with broad ferrated teeth, which as far as we 
have obferved, is peculiar to the /hark tribe. We 
therefore fufpect that thofe naturalifts have had re- 
courfe to Rondeletius, and copied his erroneous aca 
count of the teeth: Sir Rodert Sibbald, who had 
opportunity of examining and figuring the teeth of 
this fifh, and from whom we take that part of our 
_ defcription, giving a very different account of them. 
It will be but juftice to fay, that no one of 
our countrymen ever did fo much towards form- 
ing a general natural hiftory of this kingdom 
as Sir Robert Sibbald: he fetched out a fine out- 
line of the Zoology of Scotlazd, which compre- 
hends the greateft part of the Engli/h animals, and, 
we are told, had actually filled up a confiderable 
part of it : he publifhed a particular hiftory of the 
county of fife, and has left us a moft excellent 
hiftory of the whales which frequent the coaft of 
Scotland. ‘Ne acknowledge ourfelves much indebted 
$9 him.for information in refpect to many of thofe 
iy E fith, 
