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DOLPHIN, 
tremely tender,, and near an inch thick, but it is 
shaved down till it becomes somewhat transparent. 
It is made into waistcoats and breeches by the in- 
habitants ; and is said also to make an excellent 
covering for carriages, 
DOLPHIN. 
The body of the dolphin is oblong and roundish, 
and the snout narrow and sharp-pointed, with a 
broad transverse band, or projection of the skin on 
its upper part. It is longer and more slender than 
the porpesse, measuring nine or ten feet in length, 
and about two in diameter. The body is black 
above and white below. The mouth is very wide, 
reaching almost to the thorax, and contains forty 
teeth ; twenty-one in the upper, and nineteen in the 
under jaw : when the mouth is shut, the teeth lock 
into each other. 
This animal inhabits the European and Pacific 
Oceans, where it swims with great velocity, and 
preys on fish ; and it is sometimes seen adhering to 
whales when they leap out of the water. A shoal 
of dolphins will frequently attend the course of a 
ship for the scraps that are throw n overboard, or the 
barnacles adhering to their sides. Sir Hans Sloane 
was informed by some who had sailed in the Guinea 
ships, that the same shoal of dolphins has attended 
them for many hundred leagues, between the coast 
of Guinea and Barbadoes. And sir Richard Haw- 
kins had them follow his ships above a thousand 
leagues ; he knew them to be the same by the 
marks in their bodies made by being struck with 
irons from the vessels. — Their motion, when they 
swim behind or alongside of a ship, is not very quick, 
affording frequent opportunities of being struck with 
harpoorfs. Some of them are caught by means of a 
line and hook baited with pieces of fish or garbage- 
