2jS Mr. RAY’j It INERARIES, 
the Long-Ship (m)., another the 
armed Knight., which they told us 
fell down about the Time the King 
was 
( m ) When Mr. Ray was the fecond Time at 
the Land' s- End^ he made the following Obferva- 
tions.- — Augujl xht 1667. On the Rock 
“ called xht Long- Ship they often, incalmWea- 
‘‘ ther, find the Phocae^ which they call Soiles^ 
fieeping, which fometimes they kill, by ftriking 
“ crofs the Snout with a Pole, and at others 
they fhoot them. ^ Some of them (they fay) 
“ grow to the Size of a Bullock of two Years 
old, and they are of divers Colours. We 
“ could not certainly learn whether they have 4 
‘‘•or only 2 Legs, and them before ; one, that 
“ faid he had often killed them, affirmed them 
‘‘ to have only 2 Legs, and them before. We 
“ had alfo the Story how they defended them- 
felves, by cafiing Stones backward upon 
“ thofe who came near them. Being ffiot dead, 
“ the Male (they fay) falls or finks prefently to 
the Bottom, the Female floats or fwims. They 
“ difiinguiffi here between Sieles and Soiles. The 
Side they affirm to be a much leffer Fiffi, and 
not to be‘ taken on our Coafts. They diftin- 
“ guifh alfo between Dolphms and PorpuJfes\ 
y? and by their Difcourfe, 1 gather, that a DoL 
