Received March 10, 1770* 
XXVII. Defcription of the blunt-beaded 
Cachalot : By James Robertfon, Efq\ of 
Edinburgh. Communicated by Thomas 
Pennant, Efq\ F. R. S. 
Read May 10, ryHTSET ER Catoclon Linnai, blunt- 
I//0 ' * headed Cachalot, Britifh Zoology, 
run afhore upon Cramond Ifland, and was there 
killed, December 22, 1769. Cramond Ifland is in 
the Firth of Forth, four miles above Leith. The 
fifh meafured fifty-four feet in length ; its greateft 
circumference, which was a little behind the eyes, 
thirty. 
The head was nearly one half the whole fifh. 
Tab. IX. of an oblong form, and rounded, except 
within fix feet of the extremity, where it had in- 
* 
equalities, fhewn by the tranfverfe fedtion ( b ). 
The body was rounded, and gradually tapered to 
the tail, except about the middle of the back oppofite 
to the penis, where there was a bump or pro- 
tuberance, but no fin. < 
The tail, as in all the whale tribe, was placed ho- 
rizontal a little forked ; the blades were of a wedge 
fhape, and fourteen feet from tip to tip. 
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