An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spiczbergen; 149 dance of it in calm \Veather, fo that i~ .doth make the Sea all foul and flimy . I try'd to dry dtis Sperm of a J/1 1 hale in the Sun, and it look'd like Snor, and when the thin Slime· was ~ry'd away from it, look'd like to Fila rneteorica, fave only that they are thicker and more heavy. Another parcel I boil'd in Sea-water, ju!t as I kit out of the Water, until the Water was vaporated from it, then I had fome Sea-falt, ·nd a nafty brown Slimc. Thc third pa rcel I il'd in frefü Water, and afterwards again in ~ Water, and the longer I kcpt it afterwards e more it ftunk,and the harder it grcw. The urth parcel I intended to kcep in the falr– acer, with an intention to car:·y it afong with e to Hamb11rgh, but it diífolv'd in the Water, ·kc Glew, and the Water became foul and inking, fo that I could no ways make it like he.Sperm11-e11ti of the Apothe-:ieries. Where the ard doth begin it is four.fquare, confiíling of any ftrong Sinews; if you dry them they are manfparent as Fifh.Glew; out of thefe Sinews eSeamen make twifted Whips. Their Bones rt hard, 1ike unto them of great four. footcd eatls, but porous, like unto a Spunge, and fil– d with Marrow, when that is confum'd out, ey will hold a great deal of Water , far the oles are big, like unto thc Wax of a Honey– mb. Two great and ftrong Bones hold up e under-Lip, they Jie one againft the other, nd both qf them make a Figure like unto an alf.mooo, but one alone by ic felf makes a Fi– ure like to a quarter of the Moon. Sorne of L J thefc