THE DOLPHIN. 
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Section IV. 
Genus IV .— 'The Dolphin. 
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N reviewing the different tribes of cetaceous fillies, we 
^ n d them, in proportion as they diminilh in fize, grow- 
ln § ftill more a&ive and voracious. The fifhesof this ge- 
nus ’ w bich comprehends in it three different families, tha t 
the dolphin, the grampus, and porpeffe, are all much 
6 3 bulk, than the common whale. They have all 
113 upon the back, and like the reft of the whale kind, 
*fi e 7 have heads difproportioned in fize to the reft of the 
0c v • Each of the three fpecies have both jaws armed 
' Vlf h formidable teeth ; for nature has not conferred upon 
them an extraordinary voracity, without bellowing the 
"*“>• of gratifying it. 
j ^ roitl their great agility, the fillies of this genus are not 
^fluently taken. They feldom remain a moment above 
ater , fometimes, indeed, their too eager purfuits expofe 
^ em to Gauger ; and a llioal of herrings allures them out 
tbe.r depth. In this fituation, the wretched animal 
till t - InUeS t0 bounce and flounder in the Ihallow water, 
11 is knocked on the head, or till the returning tide 
a S a in comes to 
its relief. The porpelfes are often allured 
d -he Thames in this manner, till they are furrounded 
with 
