HORISIED NARVAL ; OR, SEA UNICORN. 
don, Unicorn Fish, or Sea Unicorn. This 
extended tooth perforates the upper jaw. and is 
a very powerful weapon of offence : there are 
even many instances of the tooth having been 
found in the bottoms of ships which returned 
from the Northern Seas ; probably, owing to 
the Narval's having mistaken the ship for a 
Whale, and attacked it with such fury as not 
to be able to get out the weapon from the wood. 
I The head is small, with very minute eyes ; the 
j back has no fin, and the two fins on the breast 
are very small; the skin is white, Vv^ith black 
spots on the back, and has a great quantity of 
blubber underneath. The Narval swims with 
great velocity; and, though by no means 
scarce in the seas about Greenland, is very 
"seldom killed." 
The above account, drawn by Mr. Kerr 
from the best authorities, agrees generally with 
what is seen in the fish which we have figured. 
_.The spots, indeed, have a marbled form, and 
their colour is brown, or dusky, rather than 
black. What is remarked, as to the horn, 
in the specimen at the Edinburgh Museum, 
perfedlly corresponds with the present obje6l ; 
and 
