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Skin, and then twitting it about a round Stick of Wood, 
it came very eafily off from the fecond Skin. 
In feveral of my Obfervations I did difcover, that 
there were a great many Salt Particles, moft of them of . 
the Colour of Allies, (hut up in the outmoftSkin; but I. 
feparated them from it byRam Water. ThefeSalc Parti- 
-cles were twice as long as they were thick, having each of 
them four Right Angles $ they lay coagulated in a very 
clear thin Liquor, which did not evaporate or melt a- 
way in rainy Weather : From whence I concluded, that 
they were nothing but common Sea Sap. 
Moreover, I obferv’d a great number of very (mail 
Salt Particles, that were about as long as the former, bus ' 
exceeding ttender. 
1 got alio a piece of the fecond Skin of a Whale, a- 
bout as broad as my Hand, which was as black as Pitch, 
and had four or five Protuberances or Bumps on it, that 
were about as . big as the third part of a Pea 5 and 
which, I was told, were occafion’d by the biting of the 
Lice, of which there were great; Numbets upon the 
Whales Body. 
This Skin was dty’d hard, and was al moft half an 
Inch thick $ but it was not ttrong, becaufe there were - 
no Veffels or Sinewy Fibres running through each other, 
as in the Skins of Beads and our common Fi(h$ only 
there were fome faiall Fibres that ?joy.n d it a little to . 
the Skin that Jay under, , and which pafs’d, as it were, 
in a Fvigbt Line to the uppermoft Superficies of the Skim 
Thefe. Strings,, or Fibres, ..were fo.clofe to one another, 
that there, was not above the breadth of two or three 
Hairs between them 5. they were Iran fparent or whitilb* 
and in one of them I could difcover a Blood VefFck 
The undermofty or, third Skin, was whitifh, .and fo 
ttrong withal, that I concluded,; that in .cafe the Har* 
ping Iron was. ttruck'fo deep into, the Whale, that 
the Beard ol R opki, thereof did penetrate into rh? afore* 
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