432 THE VARIOUS EXPLANATIONS. [The 10th. | 
South Pacific, having this extraordinary character, — the super- 
numerary fin being placed on the back of the head. Here is the 
evidence of competent naturalists to the existence of a most 
remarkable whale, xo carcase of which — xo skeleton — has ever 
been recognised.” 
“Phe last example I shall adduce is from my own experience. 
During my voyage to Jamaica, when in lat. 19° N., and long. 
from 46° to 48° W., the ship was surrounded for seventeen contin- 
uous hours with a troop of whales, of a species which is certainly 
undescribed. I had ample opportunity for examination, and found 
that -it was a Delphinorhynchus, thirty feet in length, black above 
and white beneath, with the swimming paws wide on the upper 
surface , and isolated by the surrounding black of the upper parts, 
— a very remarkable character. This could not have been the 
Toothless Whale of Havre; and there is no other with which it 
can be confounded. Here, then, is a whale of large size, occur- 
ring im great numbers in the North Atlantic, which on no other 
occasion has fallen under scientific observation.” ire 
“Are not these facts, then, sufficiently weighty to restrain us 
from rejecting so great an amount of testimony to the so-called 
sea-serpent, merely on the ground that its dead remains have not 
come under examination?” 
“In conclusion, I express my own confident persuasion, that 
there exists some oceanic animal of immense proportions, which 
has not yet been received into the category of scientific zoology ; 
and my strong opinion, that it possesses close affinities with the 
fossil Hnahosauria of the lias.” | 
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Fig. 62. — Chlamydosaurus, 
