An account of several late voyages and discoveries

J 4 8 77,e fotlrtl, P art of tl,e Voyage tion in the Female is juft fhaped.like as that of four-legged Beaíls. At thc fides of P«dendum ftand out the two Breatl:s , with Nipples on them, like unto thofe of Cows: Sorne of thefc Breafls are quite white, fome are fpeckled wit~ black and 6lue Spots, like a Lapwinls Egg \Vhen they have no young ones they have bu finall Breafis. I am inform'd, that when the couple together they fland uprighr, clofe to on anocber, with their Heads out of the Water whic feemeth very probable, becaufe they can not keep long under Water, and chiefly in foc a heat. They fay that they have but tw young ones at a time, for they have neve found more than two young ones within the How long they carry their young is not eafil determin'd; fome fay they go as long as a Co\\ but it is very uncertain, he tha t will bdicve · may. The Sperm of a J,Vhale, when it is fre fmells like Wheaten-flower that is boiled i Water, when it i~ fiill hot it is vcry white one may draw it out in Threads like hot Sea ing-wax, Glew, or the like-; when it growet cold it tums to a Musk-colour,and fmells flron and little red Worms grow in it, like untot grey ones, that you may fee in Tab. P. ma ked with C. I have try'd feveral ways to ke this Sperm fwcet and frefb, but I could nev make it like unto that Sptrma-c,eti which t Apothecarits fell in tf_1ei1· Shops. One may d of this Sperm w holc Pails full out of the Wate far as well this as that of the SeA·horfes and Se fwims upon the Sea like Fat, and we fee abu dan