An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spitzbergen~ I 4 5 Water very fiercely, that it. roar.i like a hollow Wind which we hear whcn the Wind blow– eth intoa Cave, or againft the comer of a Board, or like an Organ-pipe: This may be heard at a Jeagues diílance, although you do not fec him by reafon of the thick and foggy Air. The J,Vhale bloweth or fpouts the ,v ater fier– ceft of alJ when he is woundcd, .then it founds as the roaring of the Sea in a great Srorm, and as we hcar the Wind.in a very hard Storm. Behind this Bump the IVhale is fomewhat more hended in than the Finn:fiftJ, yet when they fwim you cannot well difcern one from theother, except you obferve it very cxaétly, fo1· it is only the Fino on the Fh111-fift/'s Back that di– ftinguifhes him from the JtVh.ile. The Hcad of the fVh.rile is not round at the top, but fome~ hat flat, a.nd goeth down floaping, like unto he tyling of an Houfe , to the under Lip. he under Lip is broader than the Whale is any part of the Body , and broadeft in the iddle ; before and behind it is fomething rrower, according to the íhape of the Hcad. one word, al1 the whole Fifh is lliaped like un– a Shoomaker's Laft, if you look upon it from neath. Behind the Knob o'r Bump where eFinas are, between that and the Finns, are ·s E yes, which are not much bigger than thofe a Bullock, with Eye-lids and Hair, like ens Eyes. Tbe Chryftal of the Eye is not uch bigger than a Pea, cica r, white, and tran– arent as Chryftal ; the colour of fome is ycl– wifb, of othersquite whirc: Thc Se,1Je 7 s are L tbreo