Part I. 
Of Fifher. 
On the Snout of one of thefe Whales, called Hoddunefur, 
grow about five hundred horny flat pieces, which Taylors 
in Denmark, ufe in making of Cloaths. [a) The fame in 00 ibid, 
fubtlance, with that we call Whale-Bone, belonging to the 
Finns. In Ijland they are fo commonly taken, That the 
hard Bones are there ufed for the impaling of Houfes and 
Gardens, (b) j>) Man 
The HORN of the SEA-UNICORNE. Given byR°m. 
Sir Jofeph Williamson now Prefident of the Royal-Society. 
It is an entire one, eight feet long, or about two yards 
and three quarters. Very beautiful in length, ftraitnefs, 
whitenefs, and its fpiral Furrows bigger and lefs, making 
about feven Rounds from the bottom to the top , or 
point. At the Bafis or bottom, about feven inches round. 
From thence, for about a foot, it fwells a little, and then 
again grows llenderer, all the way, and fo ends in a fharp 
point. 'Tis alfo conically hollow at the Bafis, for near 
three quarters of a foot deep. 
The fame Horn ( together with the Fifh it felf, fome- 
times above 30 Elns long,) is defer i bed by Wor??iius. (c)(c)Mnteut 
But I cannot, with him, call it a Tooth. In that, it per- Wor * 
formeth not the office of a Tooth, but of a Horn. Nei- 
ther doth it ftand as a Tooth, but horizontally. Nor is it 
fixed in the Mouth, where all Teeth ftand, but in the Snout. 
The reafon why he calls it fo, is, becaufe it is faftened in the 
Snout, as Teeth are in the Jaw. See alfo the Defcnption 
hereof in Bartholine. (d) But in that he makes it to be 00 flHfc 
Gyris Intortum, is not ( at leaft as to this Horn ) fo clearly Cent ' ¥ 
expreffed : the Horn it felf being ftrait, and not writhen, 
but only furrounded with fpiral Furrows. The fame is 
alfo transfenbed by Terzagi out oiWormiws-, into Sep alius 's 
Mufdeum. 
Of the Virtue hereof , Wormius mentions two Experi- 
ments. The one, upon its being given to a Dog, after a 
Dofe of Arfenick^: but he expreffeth the quantity of neither. 
The other, upon twelve Grains hereof given after a Drachm 
of Nux Vomica. Both the Dogs lived $ whereas two other 
Dogs having the fame Dofes , without the Horn, died; 
Both experiments are attefted by feveral' Phyfitians of 
Note. 
The credit of thefe Perfons is not doubted. But the 
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