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238 GENERAL REMARKS
fize from the grampus, or {mall whale. The weapon, which is
likened to a fword, conftitutes his back fin; and with this, and
his fharp teeth of about a finger’s length in both jaws, he attacks
the whale whenever he meets him, and purfues him until he
drives him on fhore or kills him. That fifth does not only engage
the whale fingly, but alfo in company with other fpecies ; fo that
the great tyrant of the deep, to whofe infatiable appetite fuch
numbers of fifh become every moment a facrifice, is not with-
out his enemies, by whom at length thofe victims of his voracious
defpotifm are fure to be avenged.
Another cetaceous fifh is here known by the name of /pringer,
which, in the language of Norway, fignifies a jumper. This name
is given to it becaufe it is obferved to leap frequently out of the
fea with great force, after which it falls back with a loud noife.
This fifh is near three yards in length, and in winter generally
keeps the main fea; but in the fummer it often feeks the fhallow
waters of the bays, when, being difcovered by its frequent leaps,
the fifhermen furround it with nets, to avoid which the fifh throws
itfelf on the beach, and is feized upon without difficulty.
Porpoifes, to which the Norwegians give the appellation of
nifer, are feen in great numbers. ‘The Laplanders fometimes find
them in calm weather fleeping on the furface, and thus fhoot
them, which they rarely fucceed in when they are rolling in the
water. The Laplanders, as well as the inhabitants of Finmark
and Norway, are exceedingly fond of the flefh of the porpoife.
The fhark is found in all feas, but abounds in that of which we
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