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BUNCHED WHALE, &C. 
Bunched whale. 
This species is a native of the northern seas, 
and is said to be of the same general form with 
the great whale, but of smaller size, and to have 
the back furnished with one or more tubercles : 
the variety with a single tubercle is found about 
the coasts of New England ; the other, which has 
six tubercles along the back, is supposed to occur 
about the coasts of Greenland ; but neither seem 
very accurately known : their whale-bone is said to 
be of a pale or whitish colour. 
Under-jawed whale. 
This is a native of the northern seas, and seems 
much allied to the pike-headed whale, but grows 
to a much larger size, having been found, it is 
said, of the length of seventy* eight feet, measuring 
thirty-live feet in girth ; the head is large ; the 
mouth very w ide ; the lower lip much broader 
than the upper, and semicircularly turned at its ex- 
tremity, while the upper is somewhat sharp or point- 
ed at the tip. The laminas of whale-bone are black, 
and short in proportion to the size of the animal, 
the longest not measuring more than three feet ; 
the spiracle is double, and placed on the front ; 
the belly is marked by plaits or furrows, as in the 
balsena hoops, and oil the lower parts of the back is 
a fatty fin. The colour of this species is black 
above, and white beneath. In the year 1692 a 
specimen was taken on the coast of Scotland. Its 
dimensions were as above described ; the tongue 
measured fifteen feet and a half in length, and the 
two spout-holes on the forehead were of a pyra- 
midal form ; the pectoral fins ten feet long, and 
the tail eighteen feet broad. 
