of Ambergrife . 431 
ever they hear of a place where ambergrife is found, they al- 
ways conclude that the feas in that part are frequented by tins 
fpccies of whale. It was for this reafon that a gentleman at 
Bofton, upon hearing feveral years ago that ambergrife was 
frequently found on the coafl of iVJadagafcar, immediately 
propofed a plan for a fpermaceti-whale fifhery in that part 
of the world. And the two perfons I convened with on 
this fubjeft have not the leaf! doubt but he would have 
fucceeded in the attempt, had not the Eaft India Company 
fruftrated the project, by pretending, that as' it was in their 
territory the right of ffhery could belong only to them. 
This was all they did, however, as the plan itfelt they never 
adopted. 
The perfons who are employed in the fpermaceti-whale filh- 
ery, confine their views to the Phyfeter Macrocephalus. They 
look for ambergrife in all the fpermaceti-whales they catch, but 
it feldom happens that they find any. Whenever they hook a 
fpermaceti-whale, they obferve, that it conftantly not only 
vomits up whatever it has in its ftomach, but all'o generally 
difeharges its faeces at the lame time ; and if this latter cir- 
cum fiance takes place, they are generally diiappointed in find- 
ing ambergrife in its belly. But whenever they difeover a fper- 
maceti-whale, male or female, which feems torpid and fickly, 
they are always pretty fure to find ambergrife, as the whale in 
this Bate feldom voids its foeces upon being lrooked. They 
likewife generally meet with it in the dead fpermaceti-whales 
which they fometimes find floating on the fea. It is obferved 
alfo, that the whale, in which they find ambergriie, often has 
a morbid protuberance ; or, as they exprefs it, a kind ol gathering 
in the lower part of its belly, in which, it cut open, ambergrife is 
found. It is oblerved, that all -thefe whales, in whofe bowels am- 
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