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Bottom of the Sea. The Trier?, that open them when 
dead, acquaint me, that they never obferved any Grafs, 
Fidi, or any other Sort of Food in the right or Whale- 
bone vV hale, but onlyagreyifh foft Clay, which the People 
call BoleArmoniac', and yet an experienced Whale-man 
tells me, that. he has feen this Whale in ttill Weather 
skimming on theSurficeof theWater,to rake in a Sort of 
reddifh Spawn orBrett, as fomecall it, that at fomeTimes 
will lie upon the Top of the Water, for a Mile together. 
Here alfo it may be obferv’d, that tho’ the Body of this 
W hale is fo very bulky, and fo exceeding fat ; yet when 
cut open, they are feidom found to have much more 
Draught than that of an Ox, and they dung much as 
neat Cattle do. Their Swallow is not much bigger than 
an Ox’s ; but the Finback Whale has a larger Swallow: 
for he lives upon the fmaller Fifh, asMackarel, Her- 
ring, &c. great Sculls of which they run thro’, and,with 
a fliorr Turn, caufe an Eddy or Whirlpool, by the Force 
of which, the fmall Fifh are brought into a Clutter ; fo 
that this Fifh, with open Mouth, will take in fome Hun- 
dreds of them at a Time. The Sperma Ceti Whale 
befldes other Fifh, feeds much upon a fmall Fifh that has* 
a Bill • our Fifhermen call them Squid Fifh. ' The fmall 
Peices of thefe Squid Bills are plainly to be difcerned in 
the Ambergris, and may be pick’d out of it • they ap- 
pear glazy, and like, little Pieces of broken Shells/ 
7. The Way and Manner of killing Whales. 
Mr. Harris in his Bibliotheca Navigantium , See . 
has given a very particular Account of the Method of 
taking Whales at Greenland, and though our Way 
in New England differs very much from that, yet I 
(hall wave it, as not fo ttridly appertaining to Philofophy. 
Only I would take notice of the Boats our Whale-men 
ufe in going from theShoar after the Whale: They are 
made of Cedar Clapboards, and fo very light, that two 
Men 
