(HUZZA PORPOISE) .-- This is the common porpoise found almost all over the globe.

The name is of my own bestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises, and something must be done to distinguish them.

I call him thus, because he always swims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea keep tossing themselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd.

Their appearance is generally hailed with delight by the mariner.

Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.