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 N XLVIII. 'erF,'..il$; Ie? catch all ,the Whales about the country, and I']l bet my belt hat to a half-penny, they'll be able to know black from white the whole year round. Never talk to me about-the courfe of the fun, your �oper- nitus's, your lgevtom's, and your God knows whole fyllems: I tell. yeu, 'tis owing, and entirely owing to the Whales, that there people live fix months i. obfcurity: were it not for them, I don't know but they might be as bright fellows as we at Oxford. But thole abominable montters keep fiiiing and fpouting about, extinguifl the ttars, pop-gun with their huge trunks the poor confee!lotions, and turn the milky way into a tick pout. I-Ii,v il!a tenebro. Hence it is that ne'er a watchman in Greenlaml, o Nova gembla, can cry--1'aft two a-dock, nd g. fi. ar-light morning. atnd?ales, which ith their trunks the fiars coufl The aves of. a Grand Vifier's ho?es, .the fins of an EleFhant  and the. horns of a Salmon, I have al: ready by me:'that new unheard-of curiofity, the tunk of a Whale, I am promus d by a dutch sktp per againt next $e?tember. Poor man! I am for- ry he fhould lore his labour i iut I am terribly afraid that I/hall be forc'd to return it upon. his hands. If it a/tua!ly reaches to.the fiars,..I don't know how to give it houfe-room; my cabinet being �ome few ttofies lower than the tower of Babel. However now'I think on't, I'll cut it out into muy- poles., d furnilh half the village in llngland with dauca. ng lolts,

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