(OCTAVO), CHAPTER III.

(NARWHALE), that is, NOSTRIL WHALE .-- Another instance of a curiously named whale, so named I suppose from his peculiar horn being originally mistaken for a peaked nose.

The creature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn averages five feet, though some exceed ten, and even attain to fifteen feet.

Strictly speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw in a line a little depressed from the horizontal.

But it is only found on the sinister side, which has an ill effect, giving its owner something analogous to the aspect of a clumsy left-handed man.