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fize from the grampus, or fmall whale. The weapon, which is 
likened to a fword, conftitutes his back fin; and with this, and 
his fliarp teeth of about a finger’s length in both jaws, he attacks 
the whale whenever he meets him, and purfues him until he 
drives him on fhore or kills him. That fifli does not only engage 
the whale fingly, but alfo in company with other fpecies ; fo that 
the great tyrant of the deep, to whofe infatiable appetite fucli 
numbers of fifh become every moment a facrifice, is not with¬ 
out his enemies, by whom at length thofe victims of his voracious 
defpotifm are lure to be avenged. 
Another cetaceous fifli is here known by the name of fprmger , 
which, in the language of Norway, fignifies a jumper. This name 
is given to it becaufe it is obferved to leap frequently out of the 
fea with great force, after which it falls back wdth a loud noife, 
Th is fifh is near three yards in length, and in winter generally 
keeps the main fea; but in the fummer it often feeks the fhallow 
waters of the bays, when, being difcovered by its frequent leaps, 
the filhermen furround it with nets, to avoid which the fifh throws 
itfelf on the beach, and is feized upon without difficulty. 
Porpoifes, to which the Norwegians give the appellation of 
mfer, are feen in great numbers. The Laplanders fometimes find 
them in calm weather lleeping on the furface, and thus fhoot 
them, which they rarely fucceed in when they are rolling in the 
water. The Laplanders, as well as the inhabitants of Finmark 
and Norway, are exceedingly fond of the fielh of the porpoife. 
The fhark is found in all feas, but abounds in that of which we 
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