t'HE GRAMFtis. 
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tinder lip is f 0 thick and heavy, that when the animal is 
on its belly, it is feparated from the upper *. The teeth. 
are fixty in all, thirty upon each jaw; and between each 
ls a fpace adapted to receive thofe of the oppofite fide, 
when the mouth is fhutf. Thofe upon the fore parts 
are blunt, round, and ilender, the innermoft fharp, and of 
S re at thicknefs. Thefpout hole in this fpecies, is placed 
at the top of the neck ; the animal is covered with a 
firong (kin, like leather, black upon the back, but dif- 
piaying a large fpot on each fhoulder, of the fame colour 
' Wl th the belly, which is white 5 the fides are marbled 
'with black and white fpots 
The grampus is of all the cetaceous fiih the mod fierce 
and voracious; it does not even fpare the porpeffe and 
Whale, which are animals of its own order and offuperior 
4z,e > the latter of thefe filli it is faid to tear and mangle 
ln filch a manner with its teeth, that it bellows like a 
‘ 3ll H from the pain of its wounds ||. The filhers who 
formerly repaired to the coafts of America, prohibited 
favages from deftroying this filli ; for by its affift- 
stice they were aided in the capture of whales, feals, and 
°ther animals : whilft the grampus purfued thefe, and the 
otner monfters of the deep, they were frequently obliged 
t° betake themfelves to the fliallow water in order to e- 
a pe its mercilefs teeth, where the feamen were ready 
to kill them with javelins and harpoons. 
. ^ a * s fpecies is a profitable capture for the filters, as it 
iS t0 yield a very confiderable quantity of oil ; like 
porpeffes, it fsmetimes appears upon the Britijb 
^ ol. ill. L coafts $ 
Vide Will. Orca. Lib. ii. p, 40. 
t Sibbaid, Phalxn. 7, 8. { Brit. Zool. CMsiv. gen- iii. 
11 Plough, ubi fupra. 
