Part I. 
Of Fifes', 
On the Snout of one of thefe Whales , called Hoddunefur , 
grow about live hundred horny flat pieces, which Taylors 
in Denmark ufe in malting of Cloaths. ( a ) The fame in 0) ibid, 
fubftance, with that we call Whale-Bone , belonging to the 
Finns. In Ijland they are fo commonly taken, That the 
hard Bones are there ufed for the impaling of Houfes and 
Gardens, (b) 
The HORN of the SEA-UNICORNE. Given by Rom. u * 
Sir Jofepb WiUiamfon now Prefident of the Royal-Society. 
It is an entire one, eight feet long, or about two yards 
and three quarters. Very beautiful in length, ftraitnefs, 
whitenefs, and its fpiral Furrows bigger and lefs, making 
about feven Rounds from the bottom to the top, or 
point. At the Bafts or bottom, about feven inches round. 
From thence, for about a foot, it fwells a little, and then 
again grows flenderer, all the way, and fo ends in a fharp 
point. Tis alfo conically hollow at the Bafts, for near 
three quarters of a foot deep. 
The fame Horn (together with the Fiih it fclf, fome- 
times above 30 Elns long,) isdefcnbed by Wormim. (c) cy Mufeum 
But I cannot, with him, call it a Tooth. In that, it per- Wor - 
formeth not the office of a Tooth, but of a Horn. Nei¬ 
ther doth it Hand as a Tooth, but horizontally. Nor is it 
fixed in the Mouth, where all Teeth ftand, but in the Snout. 
Thereafon why he calls it fo, is', becaufe it is fattened in the 
Snout, as Teeth are in the Jaw. See alfo the Defcription 
hereof in Bartholine. ( d) But in that he makes it to be (di Hid. 
Gyris Intortum , is not (at leatt as to this Horn) fo clearly Cent - 4 - 
exprefled •' the Horn it felf being ftrait, and not writhen, 
but only furrounded with fpiral Furrows. The fame is 
alfo transferibed by Teriagi out of Worm i its, into S eft alius s 
Miifaum. 
Of the Virtue hereof, Wormius mentions two Experi¬ 
ments. The one, upon its being given to a Dog, after a 
Dofe of Arfenickj but he exprefleth the quantity of neither. 
The other, upon twelve Grains hereof given after a Drachm 
of Nux Vomica. Both the Dogs lived5 whereas two other 
Dogs having the fame Dofes, without the Horn, died. 
Both experiments are attefted by feveral Phyfitians of 
Note. 
The credit of thefe Perfons is not doubted. But the 
M 2 queftion 
