much ; the body long, black above, white beneath ; the swimming-paws appeared white, even on their upper surface, but surrounded by dark colour on the body ; [this is remarkable] ; the lips and extremity of the muzzle appeared, when projected out of water, of a flesh-colour. They usually expired with a rushing noise, the instant the blowhole was exposed ; but did not, as I believe, spout. Once, however, I observed a little cloud of steam sailing away on the wind from the spot where one had just disap- peared; it exactly resembled that appearance which succeeds the spouting of the com- mon Korqnal (which I have seen many times), but as my eye did not catch the animal itself, I cannot positively say that such was its origin on this occasion. The evenings being cool and refreshing after the burning days, and being generally fair, and now lighted by the moon, we spend them on deck, as the pleasantest hours of the twenty- four ; this evening the wallowing of the whales added a new interest, and at nearly eleven o'clock we left them still in company. November 23rd. On rising we were surprised to find the whales still attending us. I now had an oppoituniiy of seeing the profile of one very distinctly, and of assuring myself that the form of the head was exactly that of the figured Delphinorhynchus, no furrow being visible. One of the officers informed me that he saw one of them " breach," or leap clean out of the wa- ter. Soon after 8 a.m., they left us, having continued with us nearly seventeen hours, a period of extraordinary length, when we consider that the visits of frolicsome Ceta- cea to vessels, rarely last more than half an hour or an hour. During the whole of this time, the ship had been running before a gallant breeze, and had proceeded nearly one hundred and twenty English miles. — P.H. Gosse; London, September
3rd, 1846.On Whales stranded on the Belgian Coast. By M. Julian Deby.
(Continued from p. 1470).
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