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faid white or third Skin, it would keep its hold ; but if 
it went no farther than into the black Skin, it would 
eafily be torn out. 
I have done my utmoft Endeavour to difcover the 
Parts of the aforefaid black Skin, but could not do it 
to my Satisfadion 5 for when I cut it very thin, I : 
judg’d it to be full of a great many ftnall Pores or Q- 
penings, and that upon this account it was not fo 
heavy as l fuppofed a clofe folid Body ought to be } and 
I favv in it little black fpots handing fo near one ano- 
ther, that you could hardly thruft a Hair between } 
and thefe Spots were the caufe of its being lighter. So 
have I obferv’d in the Skins of Beads, in many places, 
between the Parts of which the Skin is compofed, a 
great number, of little Globules, which I found to be 
Fat^ but in the aforefaid Skin I could difcover no Fat $ 
which appear’d very ftrarge to me, becaufe it is well 
known, that Whales have 10, 14, 15, or more Indies 
thicknefs of Fat (which they call Bacon) under the third , 
Skin. 
Moreover l obferv’d, that the black Skin was clam- 
my, or Glutinous, when- it was wet} from whence I 
concluded, that People might draw a very good Glue 
from it. 
From the. black Skin -and black Blood of a Whale, 
T turn’d my Thoughts to the black Blood of a Salmon} 
and fuppofed, that the rednefs of the Flefh of that 
Creature, was alone occafion’d by the blacknefs of its , 
Blood } and that in like manner the blacknefs of the 
Flefh of Whales proceeded from the fame Caufe. 
From hence I was confidering, whether the blacknefs . 
of, the Men upon the Coaft of Guinea, might not alfo . 
proceed from their black Blood } and whether alfo their ■, 
Flefh might not be blacker than that of white Men, 
and that the blacknefs of their. Skin, alone depended \ 
