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78 corn or Nar-Whale's Body, it is perfectly of the ame Shape as that of other Whales.

Concerning this Animal's Horn, which has given Occaion to o many Diputes, whether it be a Horn properly o called, or a Tooth, my Reader mut allow me a little Digreion, for to make thee Gentlemen Diputants aware of their Mitake, who pretend it to be a Tooth and not a Horn; being placed on one Side of the Snout, and not on the Tip of the where other Animals wear their Horns. See Wormius's Mueum, L. III. Ch. 14. But it appears clearly to all Beholders, that it neither has the Shape of a Tooth uch as other are endowed with; nor has its Root in the Jaws, the ordinary Place of Teeth, but grows out of the Snout, as may be een in the Cut hereto joined. And beides, the Aburdity is much greater to hold, and maintain, that Animals wear Teeth on the Snout or Head, like Horns: or dare any Body deny, that the Whale's Spouts are his Notrils, through which he fetches Breath,