Q5f CETACEOUS FISHES. 
•among the mod fortunate circumflances of their wretched 
lives. They make their abode bcfide it ; and feldom re- 
move till they have left nothing but the bones*. In the 
days of Willoughby , the eating whale was growing into 
dii'ufe in England f ; and at prefent the Butch failors, as 
well as our own, will not tafte it except in cafes of ur- 
gent neceffity : it is laid, however, that the French fea- 
men frequently drefs and ufe it as their ordinary food at 
&a. The wretched inhabitants of the ifland of Feroe , 
who live one half of the year on halted gulls, are alfo, 
We are told, very fond of falted whales flelh : the fat of 
the head, alter being well leafooed, they hang up in the 
chimney, and eat like bacon $. 
The internal flrufture of the whale we have already 
remarked, refembles almofl in every refpect that of qua- 
drupeds : Like them they poffefs lungs, a bilocular 
heart > a diaphragm and urinary bladder. The precife 
lhape and fituation of the vifeera of thefe animals is in- 
deed far from being fo exatfly afcertai.ned as might have 
teen expected, from the frequent opportunity there is af- 
forded of examining them. In thofe parts where they 
ate caught in greateft abundance, the failors are not very 
junous in inquiring into the ffrudhire of the parts ; and 
eW anat °mills care to undertake a talk, where the ope- 
-tor, mftead of feparating with a lancet mult cut his way 
' V ‘ Ul an ax II* is therefore not yet known whether the 
^ "ale has not one of its bowels entirely adapted for the 
Reception of air, in order to fupply it with that fluid, 
e “ U ls obli 3 ed to continue longer than ufual bcloiv 
G a the 
* Goldfmith's Nat. Hift. 
* Jacobfon’s Hift. 0 f X -^P' *' 
p Gcldfmith's Nat. Hift. 
