THE FIN FISH. 
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*efpe&s erroneous ; of tills nature certainly is the affign- 
*ng it fharp ferrated teeth*. There are feven different kinds 
of the whale properly fo called ; five of thefe are enume- 
rated among the Britijh fifties. The common whale, the 
fin-filh above deferibed, the pike headed whale, the round 
lipped, and the beaked. All thefe differ from each other 
In fize and figure, as their names imply : Their manner of 
living is alfo fomewhat different, the laft deferibed being 
n'ore a&ive and fierce than the reft. None of them have 
a large fwallow, when compared with other kinds of fifties; 
Hone of them accordingly are very voracious ; and if com- 
pared to the cachalot, that enormous tyrant of the deep, 
their manners will appear harmlefs and gentle. 
f7 he Narwhal, or Sea- Unicorn f . 
The narwhal is about fixty feet long, of a more fieri— 
^ e r make than the common Greenland whale ; and its 
Xat is in lefs abundance. It inhabits the leas of Iceland 
and Greenland . , and is feed in the fame northerly regions 
tvith the reft of the cetaceous tribes J. Nature has, how- 
ever, diftinguifhed it from every other inhabitant of the 
'leep, by that formidable weapon in the form of a tooth, 
Which projects from its upper jaw. Amongft all that 
v ariety of armour which fhe has conferred upon her dif- 
ferent tribes in the animal kingdom, fhe has contrived 
Ho inftrument of deftruftion fo direadful as the horn of 
{ he narwhal. 
H 2 It, 
Rondelet. a|>ud Willough. cap. iv; page 41. 
t Monoceros, Willough. page 41. 
I Vide Bartholin, apud Willough. page 42. 
