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and both fmall and great Beafis ; and after we have contemplated 

 the works of the Lord therein, rife up again to celebrate his 

 mercy towards the Children of Men. 



EST AVON, or SWORD-FISH. 



AMongtheSea^Monfrers that which the French call V Efia- 

 don (a word figmfying a fhort fword) is one of the, moft 

 remarkable : it hath at the end of the upper jaw a defenfive 

 weapon, about the breadth of a great Courtelas, which hath 

 hard and {harp teeth on both fides .* Thefe defenfives in fome 

 of them are about five foot in length , and about fix inches 

 broad at the lower end, and palizadoed with twenty feven 

 white and folid teeth in each rank, and the bulk of their bo- 

 dies bears a porponion thereto : The head of this monfter is 

 flat and hideous to behold, being of the figure of a heart : 

 They have neer their eyes two vents at which they caft out 

 the water which they had fwallowed : They have no (bales, but 

 a greyifh fkin on the back, and a white under the belly, which 

 is rough like a file : They have feven fins, two of each fide, 

 two on the back, and that which ferves them for a tail : Some 

 call them Saw-fijhesj fome Emperors, becaufe there is an ho- 

 ftility between them and the Whale, which they many times 

 wound to death. 



MAKSOVINS. 



THe Marfiuins are the Sea-Hogs, or Porpofes, which go to- 

 gether in great companies, and fporting themfelves leap 

 up above the water, and following all of them as many as are 

 together the fame courfe : They many times of themfelves 

 come neer enough to the (hips, and fuch as are dextrous do now 

 and then take fome of them • Their meat is of a dark colour 

 the fatteft have not above an inch or two of fat : They have 

 afharpfnout, a very broad tail, grey ifh fkin, and a hole upon 

 the top of their heads, through which they breathe and ca# 

 out water: They grunt almoft like the Land-Swine: Their 

 blood is hot, and their entrails like thofe of a Pig, and they 

 are much of the fame tafte ? but their meat is of hard di- 

 geftion. 



There is another kind of Porpofes which have the fnout 

 round and hollow, and from the refemblance there is between 

 their heads and the frocks of Friers, fome call them Monks- 

 heads } and Sea-Monks. 



RE £>V I EM. 



