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Of Fifhes. 
Part I. 
The PISLE of a WHALE. In length, above a yard. 
Near the Root ? a foot round about, notwithstanding its 
being now dry and much (hrunk. From thence it tapers 
to the very end, which is fcarce one inch about. Tis now 
as hard as a Horn. 
Part of the EAR-BONE of a WHALE. Tis as hard, 
and heavy for its bulk, as any Bone whatfoever. As big 
as a labouring mans Fift : The fame Bone which in an Ox, 
is little bigger than a Nutmeg. 
Part of a BONE faid to be taken out of the Brain of a 
Whale, taken near the Bermudas. Given by Dr. John Wil- 
l<ins, the late Bifhop of Chefter, to whom it was fent from 
thence. It feems to be part of the Brain-Pan, that was 
broken off and ftruck into the Brain, when the Whale was 
taken. 
A ROUND BONE of a WHALE. Given by Dr. Walter 
Pope. 'Tis almoft a foot Diametre, and in the middle 
about five inches thick. Tis rounded on the Edges, and 
thinner than at the middle, refembling a thick Holland 
Cheefe. 
Three more Round BONES of a WHALE 5 all of 
them lelfer, and one ratably thicker than the former 5 
the other thinner, like a white penny Loaf. The third the 
thinneft, almoft like a Tanfey. 
00 Mufe- Wormiw (a) makes mention of a Manuscript, entituled, 
Speculum Regale: but written in the ancient Danijh- 
Tongue, as he faith is fuppofed, by King Suerron, in 
which are reckon d up two and twenty kinds of Whales : 
of all which he gives a brief account in his Mufaum. Of 
which, the laft fave one, is faid to be fometimes almoft an 
hundred and thirty Elns long. The laft of all, liker a little 
Ifland, than an Animal. T 
(b) Hift. Bartholine (b) alfo reckons up the fame number 3 but 
Cent. 4. w j t j 1 f ome c j 1 ff erent Names, and a different Account 3 
which he gives from a Manufcript Hiftory of the Fifhes of 
Iceland : which, faith he, a curious and obferving Shep- 
herd of Iceland Tent to Wormius fome years before his death, 
with all their Figures. But how thefe two accounts agree, 
I fee not. I would not think, That Wormiut did here put 
in the King, and leave out the Shepherd, to make the ftory 
better. 
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