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Rh den, o that you ee but little of it: the Nature of the Female is like that of the Animals; he has two Breats with Teats like a Cow's; ome white, others tain'd with black or blue Spots. In their their Breats are larger than uual; and when they couple together, they reach their Head above Water, for to fetch Breath, and to cool the Heat contracted by that Action. 'Tis aid, that they never bring forth more than two young ones at a Spawning, which they uck with their Teats. The Spawn of the Whale, while it is freh, is clammy, and gluih, o that it may be drawn out in Threads like Wax or Pitch: it has no Relation to that which we call Sperma Ceti; for it is soon corrupted, and by no Art can be preerved,

Thee or rather Monters, are of different Sizes and Bulks; ome yield a 100, and ome 200 or 300 Tuns of Fat or Blubber. The Fat lies between the Skin and the Fleh, fix or eight Inches thick, epecially upon the Back and under the Rh