254 "Dr. schwedtawer’s Account 
tions are not only deftitute of truth, but alfo contrary to the laws 
‘of the animal oeconomy ; for, in the firft place, the gentle- 
men whom I confulted have repeatedly found am berg rife in 
males a‘s well as females ; they think, however, to have re- 
marked, that the ambergrife found in females is never in fuch 
large pieces, or of fo good a quality, as that which is found in 
; males. 2dly, No man, w r ho has the leaf knowledge in ana- 
tomy and the animal oeconomy, will ever believe that orga- 
nifed bodies, fuch as the beaks of the Sepia, which are fo con- 
flantly found in ambergrife taken out of the whale, can have 
been abforbed from the intefines by the ladleals or lymphatics, 
and colledfed with the ambergrife in the bag mentioned by 
atkins and Dudley. If either of thofe perfons had known, 
the nature of thele fubftances, and had had the leaf: knowledge 
of the different fecretions in animal bodies, they would cer- 
tainly never have ventured to give fuch a defcription as a true 
one. 
K^empfvr, who has given us fo many other faithful ac- 
counts in Natural Hiftory, feems to come nearer the truth with 
regard to the origin of ambergrife, when he fays, that it is 
the dung of the whale ; and that the Japanefe, for this realon, 
call it, Kufura no fuu, /. e. Whale’s Dung ; but this relation, 
though founded on obfervation, has never obtained credit, and 
has been confidered rather as a fabulous ftory, with which the 
Japanefe impofed upon him, who had himfelf no direft obfer- 
vation to prove the fadt. 
This matter therefore remained a fubjedl of great doubt, and 
it was generally thought to be more probable, that ambergrife, 
after having been lwallowed, and fomehow or other changed 
in the ftomach and bowels of the whale, was found among its! 
Increments. But in order to difcufs this matter fully, and! 
i •‘‘bringl 
