BLACK BLU>7T-N0SED CACHALOT. 
-mon Whale. The tongue is small ; but the 
throat is so capacious, that it would with great 
ease admit an ox. It Is as destructive among 
Isser fishes as the whales are inofrensive, and 
can at one gulp swallow a whole shoal of 
£shes down it's enormous gullet. Sperma- 
ceti, and Ambergris, are both produced from 
the Cachalot. The former is found naturally 
in the head of the animal ; and is, in fadl, the 
brain. The spinal marrow, too, affords no 
inconsiderable quantity. Indeed, ail the oil of 
this fish is convertible into Spermaceti ; by 
boiling it in pot-ash lees, and hardening it in 
the manner of soap. As Ambergris," says 
Dr. Goldsmith, *' is found in the place where 
the seminal vessels are usually situated in other 
animals, the name of the former substance 
seems more justly to belong to this." But 
Dr. Schwediatir, in the Philosophical Trans- 
actions for I783, says that the perfume called 
Ambergris, is the hardened faeces, or scybala, 
ejedled by the animal when sick, large quanti- 
ties having been found in it's intestines. The 
same Gentleman informs us, that the Cachalot 
feeds chiefly on the Eight-Legged Cuttle-Fish, 
or Sepia Odlopodia. 
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