KOUNED NARVAL; OR, SEA UNICORN, 
This fish, though a stranger to the British 
SeaSy is a well-known inhabitant of the nor- 
tliern part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the 
Mooodon Monoceros, or Horned Narval, of 
Linnsus ; the Monodon, of Artedi ; the Mo- 
noceros, of Charleton, Willughby, and Ray; 
and the Narhwal, of Klein. The animal is 
represented, by some authors, as measuring 
from twenty to twenty-two feet in length; 
while others assert, that it reaches to forty or 
even sixty feet long, and twelve broad. It is 
particularly noticed for it's horn, or horns, as 
they are called ; which, however, are consi- 
dered, by the best naturalists, as adlual teeth. 
Of these, it is said, there are, in young ani- 
mals, always two; though the old ones have 
seldom more than one, and sometimes none. 
Mr. Kerr assures us that, " in the specimen of 
the Edinburgh Museum, there is only one, 
which is placed rather on one side, and no 
vestige of a socket for the other: but, then," 
he adds, " it is a general fadl, that sockets 
become obliterated after the teeth which grew 
liom tbicm are destroyed. From this circum- 
stance of only one tooth being usually found, 
the aiiimal has acq^iiircd the name of Mono- 
don, 
