Part I. 
Of Fifhek 
On the Snout of one of thefe Whales, called Hoddunefuri 
grow about five hundred horny flat pieces, which Taylors , 
in Denmark ufe in making of Cloaths. (a) The fame in (*) ibid, 
fubilance, with that we call Whale-Bone, belonging to the 
Finns. In Ifland they are fo commonly taken, That the 
hard Bones are there ufed tor the impaling of Houfes and 
Gardens, (b) MuC 
The HORN of the SEA-UNICORNE. Given by^- 
Sir Jofeph WiUiamfon 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, ftraitnefsj 
whitenefs, and its fpiral Furrows bigger and lefs, making 
about feven Rounds from the bottom to the top , or 
point. At the Bafts or bottom, about feven inches round. 
From thence, for about a foot, it fwells a little, and then 
again grows ilenderer, all the way, and fo ends in a fharp 
point. Tis alfo conical ly hollow at the Bafts, for near 
three quarters of a foot deep. 
The fame Horn ( together with the Fifh it felf, fomc- 
times above 30 Elns long,) is defcnbcd by Worm ins. (c) Cc) Mufeum 
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 itand, but in the Snout. 
The reafon why he calls it fo, is, becaufe it is fattened 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 (d) Hift, 
Gyris bitortum, is not (atleaft as to this Horn) fo clearly Cent ' 4 * 
exprened • the Horn it felf being (trait, and not writhen, 
but only furrounded with fpiral Furrows. The fame is 
alfo transcribed by Terzagi out oi Wormius, into S ep alius § 
Mufczum. 
Of the Virtue hereof, Wormiws mentions two Experi- 
ments. The one, upon its* being given to a Dog, after a 
Dofe of Arfenickj but he expreffeth the quantity of neither. 
The other, upon twelve Grains hereof given after a Drachm 
of Nux Vomica. Both the Dogs lived 3 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 
M 2 queftion 
