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" or to fay better, made waving like a wreath'd pillar, fave 

 " that the channels grew fmaller and fmaller till they gently 

 " ended in a point, which was two inches beyond the fourth 

 iC toot. All that lower part had over it an alh-colour'd (kin, 

 "which was all over coverd with a fmall foft hair, (hort as 

 " plu(h,and of the colour of a wither'd leaf, but under that it 

 " was as white as Ivory. As to the other part, which feemed 

 " naked, it was naturally polilh'd, of a (hining black, mai ked 

 " with certain fmall white and yellow ftroaks, and of fuch fo- 

 " lidity, that a (harp file could hardly get a little fmall powder 

 " from it. It had no ears ftanding up, but two fpacious gills, 

 " as the other fifties : The eyes were about the bignefs of a 

 " Hens egge *, the Ball, which was of a fky-colour enameli'd 

 " with yellow,was encompafs'd with a certain vermilion, w hich 

 " had beyond it another as clear as Chryftal : The month was 

 "wide enough, and furnifhed with feveral tctth, whereof 

 " thofe before were extremely (harp, and thofe towards the 

 " throat in both jaws were broad, and a little knobbed.* The 

 " tongue was of a length and thicknefs proportionable^ and 

 " covered with a rough (kin of a vermilion colour. What was 

 " further remarkable, is, that this fifti had upon the head a kind 

 ec of crown, rifing above the (kin about two inches, and made 

 " oval- wife, the extremities whereof ended in a point. Above 

 €c three hundred perfons of that Ifland did eat of the meat of 

 " it, and that plentifully, and thought it extremely delicate % 

 " It was interlarded wirh a white fat, and being boiled it came 

 " up in fleaks like frefti Cod, but it had a much more excellent 

 "tafte. 



" Thofe who had feen this rare fi(h alive,and had with great 

 " Levers broken the back of it, affirmed, that he had made 

 " prodigious attempts to thruft them with his horn, which he 

 " turned with an inexpreffible dexterity and nimblenefs, and 

 <c that it he h-d had as much water under him as would have 

 " born htm up, he would have been too hard for them all. 

 " When the entrails were taken out, it was found that he liv'd 

 " by prey *, for there were within him the fcales of feveral 

 " kinds of fifh. 



" What could be preferv'd of this miraculous Animal, efpe- 

 " cially the head, and the precious horn faften'd in it, hung up 

 " neer two years at the Guard-houfe of the Ifland, till Mon- 

 46 fieur Le f dj&*r, the Governour of it,prefented one Monfitur 

 " des Trancarts (a Gentleman of Xaintonge who had given him 

 " a vifit) with the Horn. Not long after, coming over in the 

 ec fame Ship with the Gentleman who had that precious rarity 

 " put up in a long Cheft, our Ship was call: away neer the Ifland 

 " of Fayala^ one of the Affores^ and all the Goods were loft a 

 " but nothing fo much regretted as the lofs of that Cheft. 



There is in the Northern Seas another kind of Unicorns, 



which 



