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Rh round, turned, with a harp taper Point; the greatet Length of it is 14 or 15 Foot, and thick as your Arm. The Root of it goes very deep into the Head, to trengthen it for the upporting of o heavy a Burthen. The Horn is of a fine white and compact Matter, wherefore it weighs much. The third Part of it, beginning from the Root, is commonly hollow; and there are ome very olid at the Root, and above it grows more and more hollow. On the right Side of the Head there lies another horter Horn hidden, which does not grow out of the Skin, and it cannot be conceived for what End the Creator has ordained it. He has, like other Whales, two Pipes or Spouts, which terminate in one, through which he breathes and fetches Air, when he comes up out of the Sea with his Head. Here I mut oberve to you, that when the Whale comes up to fetch Air, 'tis not Water he throws out at the Spouts, as the common Notion runs; but his Breath, which reembles Water forced out of a great Spout. As for the ret of the Uni- corn