THE DOLmilf. 
■with boats, from which the fifliermen fiioct them with 
fire arms*. 
In their internal ftru&ure thefe animals referable qua- 
drupeds, and the other cetaceous fifties. Conception is be- 
gun by the introduction of femen, and after ten months, 
a perfeCt animal is produced. They bring forth their 
young only in the fummer feafon f ; in the month of Oc- 
tober the foetus has been extracted from a dolphin but 
newly begun to form J. The young, after being pro- 
duced, continue to follow the parent, till they have at- 
tained their full fize, which is in about ten years. The 
longevity of thefe fifties was computed by Ariflotle to be 
upwards of thirty years : The method praCtifed to afcer- 
tain it, feems but an auk. ward one : it was, by cutting off 
a part from the tail fin, and returning the animal to the 
fea ; and if the fifh happened afterwards to be taken, its 
age was guefled at from that circumilance. 
Dolphin $, 
Concerning the figure of the dolphin, properly fo cal- 
led, the ideas of the ancients were exceedingly erroneous. 
Upon their marbles and poms, they are uniformly defigned 
of 
* Goldfmith’s Nat. Hilt, 
f Mi (lot. Hift. anim. lib. vi. 
t Willcugh. lib. ii. p. 30. 
5 Delpbiijus Antiqaorum, Walongh. Le Dauphin. BriiTon, 
