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SEA UNICORN, ou NARWHAL. 
This animal is sufficiently distinguished 
from all others of the deep by its tooth or 
teeth, which point directly forward from the 
upper jaw, and are from nine to about four- 
teen feet long. In all the variety of weapons 
with which nature has armed her various 
tribes, there is not one so large or so formi- 
dable as this. This terrible weapon is 
generally found single ; and some are of 
opinion that the annual is furnished with 
but one ; but there is at present the skull of 
a bea Unicorn, or Narwhal, at tire Stfid- 
house at Amsterdam, with two teeth. The 
tooth, or horn, is as straight as an arrow, 
and about tile thickness of the small part of 
a man’s leg; it tapers to a sharp point, and 
is very hard. It is very harmless. 
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