An account of several late voyages and discoveries

1'he fntroduéHon. Author, 11re ,r littlc con/111• d in t/Je HiflorJ o/ hale!, fome rc,·~r,n 11p I o Species, '"'' Wormius dB1rtholinc, ,11af<.t:the.:1111p 22.givi11,~ the1111u– N! NafJIU fro111 thcir difference in{'ol0Hr1, in ,,,, ill Teeth, in Whalebo11e, in Spo11tJ, in OJI, Sperma Ceti, &c. R.or.deh-tius, Geíner, Bel– . ius, Scbonve!d, Faber, Chlfius, and Tulpius, m indeed to deft:ribc 6 ar 7 Jiflin[I fart1 of lf/l,4/e 1, : the Balama Vulgiris, the . Bal~na Vera, the a or Balxn.t dentara, (perhap, 011rGrampus,) the yfcteror Whirte-Pool, the Cete or Pot-W 3(fitb, Monoceros or Unko~n 1-f' h"lc. The Trumpa ale orSpouter ,111a1 perh.tpsbe thr: Phyferer ,a11el the rmaCetiW hale thcPot-walfifh,tho tht:Spout and rma Cdy "'ªJ be common to "''"'} ofthe»i. l·Ye in the Philofophical Tranfaltions, N,m,. 205. Accoant of n hales by Sir Thoms Sybbalds, h,H had opportunities of vie~in,g thc111 011 the s of Scotiand, and thereforefeenu to he more El th(l1t other lfrilers; h11t we havi111. nevér read 8004_, 11111ft be content to reftr the Reader to lt; elling in the mean time more cledr dijlinllio,u .the1J1 fro1J1 the Excellent A-Ir. R1y, in hk in– áed Synopfis of Fi{heg and Birds. Anno Dom. 16;;. The King of Denmark re– 'd lo advam:e the 1Vorthcrn ~l 'r.1de and Difcove– ' and therefare er¡11ipp'd, .mcl fot 011t three Ship,;, hOrders to t,1f<..e the ,;,rft exaé1 acco1mt o/ all the rfts a11d Place1 the 1 came .1t, ancl to report the111 their ret11rn n,ith aU pojiMe li1ri1,¡ity. th,11 tl>ere– the Vop,ge might ie everJ w,1y bmcfi'ch,I. TheJ e,l the Wcygar Streights, ami f01mcl fome lnha– . nts o/ Nova Zembla in thcir Canoes, or lillle ( b 2 ) FifhJ,,g• :xxm

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