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{elves on. This Fifh, when firft brought forth, is about 
twenty Feet long, and of little Worth, but then the 
Dam is very fat. At a Year old, when they are called 
Short-heads, they are very fat, and yield to fifty Bar- 
rels of Oil, but by that Time the Dam is very poor, 
and term’d a Dry-skin, and won’t yield more than thirty 
Barrels of Oil, tho’ of large Bulk. At two Years old, 
they are called Stunts, being hunted after weaning, and 
will then yield generally from twenty four to twenty 
eight Barrels. After this, they are term’d Scull-fifii, 
their Age not being known, but only guefs’d at by the 
Length of the Bone in their Mouths. The Whale-bone, 
fo called, grows in the upper Jaw on each Side, and is 
fometimes fix or feven Feet in Length. A good large 
Whale has yielded a thoufand Weight of Bone. ’Tis 
thought by fome, that the hairy Part of the Whale-bone, 
and which is next to the Tongue, ferves in the Nature 
of a Strainer of their Food. 
The Eye of a Whale is about the Bignefs of an Ox’s 
Eye, and they are fituated in the After- part of the Head 
on each Side, and where the Whale is broadeft; for his 
Head tapers away forward from his Eyes, and his Body 
tapers away backward } his Eyes are more than half 
way his Depth, or neareft his Under-part juft under 
his Eyes are his two Fins before-mentioned • he car- 
ries his Tail horizontally, and with that he fculls him- 
felfalong. 
The Entrails of this Whale are made and fituated 
much like thofe of an Ox, and their Scalps are* fometimes 
found covered with Thoufands of Sea-lice. One of 
thefe Whales has yielded one hundred and thirty Bar- 
rels of Oil, and near twenty out of the Tongue. The 
Whale-bone Whale is the moft valuable, except the 
Sperma Ceti Whale. 
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