paved ( this was the plain Sea-mans phrafe ) with fit. like the 
Cawlof aHog. 
The other old one^ he faidj was fome 60. Foot long. Of the 
.Cubs, one was 333 the other two^ much about 25. or 26. Foot 
long. 
The (hape of the Fifli^he (aid, was very fliarp behind, like the 
ridge of a hou(e;the head pretty bluft^ and full of bumps on both 
fides : the back perfeftly black.and the belly white. 
Their celerity and force he afiirmed to be wonderful , info- 
much that one of thofe Creatures^ which he ftruck himfelf^towed 
the boat wherein he was, after him^ for the fpace of fix or feven 
Leagues, in J of an hours time. Being wounded, he faith, they 
make a hideous roaring, at which, all of that kind that are with- 
in hearings come towards the place^ where the Animal is , yet 
without ftriking, or doing any harm to the wary. 
He addedjth^it they ftruck one of a prodigious bignefs, and 
by ghefs of above 100. foot long. He is of opinion, that this Fifli 
comes neereft to that fort of Whales , which they call the Jh- 
hartes ^ they are without teeth, and longer then the Greenland- 
Whales,but not fo thick. 
He faid further that they fed much -^ipon Grafs.grow 
bottom of the Sea^ which,heaffirmed,wlwfeeB by cutting up the 
great Bag or Maw, wherein he had found ih one of them about 
two or three Hogfheads of a grccnifli grafly-matter. 
As to the quantity and nature of the Oyl which they yieldj^^ 
he thought, that the largeft fort of thefe Whales might afibrd^ 
feven or eight Tuns if well hufbanded, although they had loft 
much this hrft time, for want of a good Cooper,having brought 
home but eleven Tuns. The Cubbs, by his relation, do yield 
but little, and that is but a kind of Jelly. That which the old 
ones render, doth candy, like Porks-Greafe, yet burneth very 
well. He obferved, that the Oyl of the Blubber is as clear and 
fair as any Whey : but that which is boy led out of the Lean, in» 
terlarded,becomesashard as Tallow, (pattering in the burning 5 
and that which is made of the Cawl, refembleth Hoggs-greafe. 
One,but fcarce credible, quality of this Oyl, he affirms to be^ 
that though it be boiling, yet one may run ones hand into it 
without fcalding 5 to which he adds, that it hath a very healing 
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