Eotm and
Sliape,
;«S? # W l» g 35 b f e .the uHml" ^&3WJialeai('gcaietaPyt* B ^ ^ . $
theiiiicScbf ftonh^
Pvfw^feip' ?^ ^ ft% .W d t^ y -'n ^ 8 ;,jT li«% h watekfeiits
^f.j^ctl^^^«a^-;l)yA:thfibWihate«-::aniiia,-^fe|ett1g
hs.reomijMijtfael forfacS :«f sifts
frelb lair. *j
: r a T ^ '^ a le , for #t£ df^nihefs k driving out the iinall Fifli from
-1 Qi-wMch^dto-fea^ter
kind -,inoftly ihequent^our eeaft.jj Thb. large- Whale.;, or Balaena
g&tloften, overkbots-himfelf, and Comes
agro.ond^Qr ftrikesupnn j a jspckj and expkes? there. ,i He then be-
Pl#ea -f^e propettyr^fi thedpwrner cjf>,thp; :land,:,:aceordiiig to the
,:r. Their i ik& g
i pr#ty mUcb>refkd?ls$. that i $6 the God’ | ; it has
a large head, and finall iey#; in proportion: ori the fopqfithe head
there are two opening^ ;or .holes, through, which i t fpouts.dufe the
wptpf ji^ken inx a§’ it br§afbe6j
yipJent noifc. ;
i : T he| %W, jg& the Whale is fniooth, -and *tn©t .lye’ry. thick y the
colour-of the back i^,dark, variegated, ortmarbled.funder Jthe
belly i t is-white ; their fwallow^t,or throat, is very-narrow, in proportion
to, their fize.:: ;undb.r;theif back-bone lies a.long bladder,
which is dikted.brvcpntratSrpd, as the Filh pleafes. „ The nfe o f this
is, not to receive any n c m r i k k e i f i f T o u n d lthere^ Kut
only to lighten the-Filh,- and make him buoyant. The tail, which
he makes .wje of as:; an oar to mw-kimfelfn with, and Lwhieh
prudence forbids to approach: too near,^ has fM^iptetiohla®ityjtfeat
if ’ls. nqt perpendicular to the fur^ge of the water as he. fwims,
like that, of other kinds of Filh, but horizontal; and .this is-the
great, charaaeriftick of the (pedes:’,'/ They copulate after the
manner of land animals, and to that, end ftand, upright- ..oni their
hi&Rift^at. Lib. I?. C,:^ that in. the /India» feafcate ffitindiWHafegf«»r
« Lib. xxxii. 6apli.• fftatalks
L t i z f Wha es/Iic feetitsHg, and three hunarea and fixty'ftet'&oaclE^ich
^ btei carried m with a flood to Arabia. I think that this cautidus writer la th e r
rripects has, m this point, been too cfedulotis. -In the mean time this is true, according
fgg§| general opinion, that tJwTree of' thef While groWs lefs by degrees* Fdfltiiefc
lair twenty years one feldomfes any, fo large as they in general were, efpedaliy near
Greenland, where two. or three feldpm yield a greater quantity of train-oil'- th'an fof-
merly was extrafted from ime. - The natural caufe of this feems t6'Wdtir SinEon
mduitiy m catching them, fo that we dp not give them time ro attain to-'tKeir f o
growth.
tails.
milsk The mothe&brings forth but f®n& or two yoang^hes af a
y;.birth; they are;nine-foil? teh-feet Ica% wle^firfl; produced: fhey
, * c k life dams«j teats, which ajcpufituattsdi near ’&e aperture on,
the- Belly. .rW^nt^e-i young a^-,tired iji theirfeotfj, the dam
takes-piem„betwixt: W fipm t pSikni?'i^®i9v ;awat|#th''iMiem
xmmadiate%^iHndeii th#*in % rfa'tiw©ur' I S
theikt is the flelh of a reddifh-cdkur, which forfietimel'eaten
Vfhoynot ^ “ (admired hut tM tongue and {fhe tail are reckoned
delicate food. , . la , _ ,
rnkhen the'Whaie-grbwsfeia^e^V Mufcfe,; andlbther foul-t
g,neHesy .gather -uponl^s-.back, arid-atwaysi flicking elofe-tcrifi eaufea
a. veryallfcent, whkh/conftantly. attends an old Whale.- - ’
; Their,food is- in, general .-certain fmall, infe&s, - which float apenT,oj’ '
the, water in great heap^land are.not^arger than -flies-: ‘befides
.tHefeyith^ ea^vartous;Tofte:efkimsITFilh, patticukrly: H e iyW
lyduch they d f i v e t o g e t h e r P W | ^ P t h e n . M l f e S
jiprodagiouh Auantthses-at! a. time f. The, W.hale commonly" £bes
mnder a large fhoal ofj.Hemng^fand-at times. .opbns.ihis ,n«lthi
as:hks b'een! before ob/eirvedy heTpo’u'ts but of thofe" aper£tfItf in-the
■ head f but the Fith andUdfeas, remain .behind; aid fometifees he
his; belly - wilh/h^lfe-kmiaia
^hem,: and is even ready to burft,. #hich,caai&s i the;iWhale fo‘ feb
lip,, a hideeusi r.oar. , ,
;^:-;Acbbfdii% to fpm&-a6coimts, the'Whale bfteh loks^his Iife bv
th^violent.diikntiohf; ; On : thk.oecafion^or,- when he-k
feed by his-, enemy, th^Speckhuggeren, as lhall bdf mentioned
hereafter,, he ihakqs' lot >tem ble a, noife!.that; biie „would; imagined t
.;to;be;,a Ibfl-gvGkp.df M i Ther fame .uA^onhtableidisiferds
heaM if he Accidentally! falls, intd „the fifliermen’s ' herring-rnets * '
and thoj heleafily carribsi them: awayj- yet hb. is .very much affeaed’
by tiietfrigfotdw . dn-i c k bid i,i -n -
fa?s that .the'male Twdliowl upfwhde'ieaps « S f
’-A'M»fcco£F&f^d latey f8§;wh*e\ S l f | dfefthlfi’
w ' l c ^ It«icuf?^nray b^imcWedn^wiisIwofng: T-:’:- 1- '“n , “ to •t he mpokevt ^S“illiuias
;f?ra|oeyu3! Ppnti 1
Pe| longam fterili ad
n j & (lpMraffi totam^Ms:l-gh'rgieb-grtSfl'M«-S
-,"i!*y^At)im,Bet late ^Iffiiktuih'iSmmis'^^fef-"®^
L Tart II. i i