APPENDIX 



TO 



WHALES. 



,A.S an appendix to the history of this extra- 

 ordinary tribe, and in order to convey as much 

 general information as possible on so interesting 

 a subject, I shall avail myself of Mr. Hunter's 

 excellent paper in the Philosophical Transactions, 

 in which an accurate description is given both of 

 the external and internal appearance of several 

 of the principal species* I shall give the obser- 

 vations chiefly in Mr. Hunter's own words, with 

 some occasional abridgements and omissions. The 

 whole must necessarily appear somewhat tedious 

 to common readers, but those who know how to 

 appreciate its importance will highly approve of 

 its insertion. 



This order of animals has nothing peculiar to 

 fish, except living in the same element, and being- 

 endowed with the same powers of progressive mo- 

 tion as those fish which are intended to move with 

 a considerable velocity. 



Although inhabitants of the waters, they be- 

 long to the same class as quadrupeds ; breathing 

 air, being furnished with lungs, and all other parts 

 peculiar to the oeconomy of that class, and having 

 warm blood ; for we may make this general re- 

 mark, that in the different classes of animals there 



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