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guiflied by not having any Whale-bone in the Mouth 
but inftead of that, there are Rows of fine ivory Teeth 
in each Jaw, about five or fix Inches long. One of thefe 
Teeth I have done myfelf the Honour to fend the So- 
ciety. The Man, who gave it me, fays, the Whale was 
forty nine Foot long, and his Head made twelve Barrels 
of Sperma Ceti Oil. They are a more gentle Filh 
than theother Whales, and feldom fight with theirTails ; 
but when {truck, ufualiy turn upon their Backs, and 
fight with their Mouths. The Oil, which is made of 
the Body of this Filh, is much clearer and fweeter than 
that of the other Whales. 
* The Sperma Ceti Oil, fo called, lies in a great 
Trunk about four or five Feet deep, and ten or twelve 
Feet long, near the whole Depth, Breadth, and Length 
of the Head, in the Place of the Brains, and feemsto be 
the fame, and difpofed in feveral membranous Cells, 
and covered not with a Bone, but a thick grifly Sub- 
ftance below the Skin, through which they dig a Hole, 
and lade out the clear Oil. Not but that the Head, and 
other Glandulous Parts of this Fifli, will make the Sper - 
ma Ceti Oil , but the bell, and that which is prepared 
by Nature, is in the Trunk aforefaid: And an inge- 
nious Man, who has himfelf kill'd many of thefe Whales, 
affures me, that only the Trunk will afford from ten 
to twenty Barrels. Befides the Sperma Ceti Oil, this 
Fifia wili yield from twenty to fifty Barrels of common 
Oil. 
One of our Country Dodors tells me, that the Tooth * 
of this Fifia, fliaved or powdered, and fo infufed in Li- 
quor, equals the Harts-horn, and has been ufed in the 
Small-Pox, and given to Lying- in- Women, in Cafe of 
Sicknefs, with Succefs. The Quantity is as much as 
* Sperma Ceti Oil. 
will . 
