An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spitzbergen. 1 5 1 Foot, and is the thickeft of all the U 7 h4/ei. The fongue, as I have faid before, is faftned to it, but very foft, but it cofls .too much labour to cut it. The :~at offome fVha/es is much thicker tban that of others, as it is with other Animals or Meo, where one is much Ieancr than ano– ther. In the Fat are little Sinews interfpcrs'd, which hold the Oyl, as a Sponge does Water, whicb one may fqueez.e out : The othcr ftrong Sinews are chiefly about the Tail, where it is thinneft, for with it he turns and winds him- 1 felf, as a Ship is turn'd by the Ruddcr, but his . Finns are bis Oars, and according to bi~ bignels . be rows himfclf aloog with them ai fwifdy as a : Bird flies, and doth make a long track in the ' Sea, as a great Ship doth when under fail, fo that it remains divided for a whilc. The 'PVhales of the North Cape (they are fo cal– ed, becaufo they are caught between Spitzber– m and Norrvay) being not fo big, therefore do not yield fo much Fatas thofe of Spitzbergen., or oí thofe of the North Cape you fhall not fül bove reo, twemy, or thirty Cardels of :Fat; he middling fort of thofe of Spitzbergen yicld ommonly feventy, eighty or ninery, and thcy _re about fifty or fixty foot long Our biggeft Vhale was fifty tluee foot long, and we cut off im as much Fat as fill'd fevenry Cardels ; his ail was about three fachom andan half broad. heSkipper Peter Peterfan of Friefland inform'd e, that they found a dead Whale, whcreof hey did cut as much Fat as fill'd one hundred d thirty Cardels, his Tail was three fatbom L 4 and