ea-wclf, but k is larger. What is peculiar t6 It ti 

 two teeth of the thicknefs and length of a man's 

 arm, bending ibrnewhat upwards, which one might 

 eafily miitake for horns, and from which thefe ani- 

 mals probably had the name of fea-cows. The 

 failors have a fimpler name for them, which is, the 

 bead with the great tooth. This tooth is a very 

 fine ivory, as well as all the reft in the jaws of thi£ 

 fifh, and which are four fingers long. 



There are two forts of porpoifes in the river St. 

 Lawrence thofe found in fait- water, that is, from 

 a little below the Ifie of Orleans, are exactly the 

 fame with thofe found in the ocean. Thofe in 

 frem water are perfectly white, and of the fize of a 

 cow ; the firft fort commonly go in herds % I have 

 not pbferved this circumftance in the other fort, 

 though I have feen many of them playing in the 

 port of Quebec, They never go higher than this 

 city ; but there are many of them oh the coafts of 

 Acadia, as weli as of the firft fort, fo that the dif- 

 ference of colour cannot proceed from the different 

 Qualities of frefh 5 and fait- water. 



The white porp'oife yields a hogfbead of oil; 

 which is of much the fame quality with that drawn 

 from' the fea-wolf. I have never found any perfore 

 that had fafted the fiefh of this animal, but as fojf 

 thofe called dorcelies, a name given the grey por- 

 poife, their flefh is faid to be no bad eating ; they 

 make puddings and faufages of their guts -, thd 

 pluck is excellent fricafied, and the head preferable 

 to that of afheep, though' inferior to a calf 's. 



The flans of both are tanned and drefled like 

 Morocco • leather ; at firft it is as tender as lard of 

 fat, and is an inch thick they fhave it down thin- 



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