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lar parts, four inches in thickness. The tooth, 
which in this animal is a solitary one, was covered, 
over the greater part of its surface, with a greasy 
substance, forming a blackish-brown incrustation. 
The under side of the horn, however, and a few 
inches of the point, were quite clean, white, and 
polished. These parts, it would therefore seem, 
are brought into some use, which prevents the 
adherence to them of the common incrustation. 
A thick fog set in on Saturday afternoon, and 
continued almost the whole of Sunday, the 30th. 
It was often so dense that we coidd scarcely see 
far enough to tack the ship clear of the ice. 
On Monday, July 1st, the fog gave place to 
rain, which somewhat extended the limit of vi¬ 
sion. We immediately made sail ; and, after 
beating all night to the south-eastward, to round 
a point of ice, we penetrated between two chains 
of floes towards the NNE, until we fell in with 
several whales. Three vessels near us all made 
captures ; but we were not successful. 
The next day was perfectly calm, and the 
weather fine. In a bight formed by the union of 
a floe with a body of drift-ice, a great number of 
whales were discovered. All the boats were dis¬ 
patched in pursuit, and remained on the watch, 
or in chase, for about ten hours; but the weather 
was so calm and still, that almost every fish they 
