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Rh Bones are covered with Hair like chiefly thoe that incloe the Tongue. Some of them arc bent like a Scymitar, or Sable, The mallet are ranged the foremot in the Mouth, and the hindermot near the Throat; the broadet and larget are in the middle, ome of them two Fathom long, by which we may judge of the vat Bignes of this Animal. On each Side there are commonly two hundred and fifty, in all five hundred Pieces. They are et in a broad Row, as in a Sheaf, one cloe to the other, bent like a Crecent or half Moon, broadet at the Root, which is of a tough and grily Matter, of a whitih Colour, fatned to the upper Part of the Jaws, near the Throat, and they grow maller towards the End, which is pointed; they are alo covered with Hair, that they may not hurt the Tongue. The undermot Jaw is commonly white, to which the Tongue is fatened, incloed in the Barders, or long it is very large, ometimes about eighteen Feet, and ometimes more, of a white Colour, with black Spots, of a oft, fat, and Rh