...fituated in other animals, It is found in a bag of three or four feet long, in rouncTlumps, from one ~ta twenty pounds weight, floating in a fluid rather thinner than oil, and of a yellowifh colour. There are never feen more than four at a time in one of thefe bags; and that which...

...Spermacetiwhale. ** It is found in this animal, in the place where the feminal veflels are ufually fituatcd in other animals. It is foun'd in a bag of three or...floating in a fluid rather thinner than oil, and of a yellowifh colour. There are never feen more than four at a time in one of thefe bags ; and that which...

...where the feminal vefl'els are ufually fituated in other animals, in a bag of three or four feet lon^, in round lumps, from one to twenty pounds weight,...floating in a fluid, rather thinner than oil, and of a yellowifh colour. There are never feen more than four lumps at a time in thefe bags; and that which...

...belongs to this animal. The name which has been improperly given to the former substance, seems moie justly to belong to this, for the ambergris is found...balls of ambergris are not found in all fishes of this kind, but chiefly in the oldest and strongest. The uses of this medicine for the purposes of luxury...

...the manner of soap. Candles are now made of it, which are substituted for wax, and sold much cheaper. As to the ambergris which is sometimes found in this...balls of ambergris are not found in all fishes of this kind, but chiefly in the oldest and strongest. The blunt-headed Cachalot is fifty-four feet in length....

...the manner of soap. Candles are now made of it, which are substituted for wax, and sold much cheaper. As to the ambergris, which is sometimes found in this...fluid rather thinner than oil, and of a yellowish color. There are never seen more than four at a time in one of these bags ; and that which weighed...

...us to beware of; for they carefully guard us against having our spermaceti adulterated with virgin wax. As to the ambergris, which is sometimes found...ever seen, was found single. These balls of ambergris arc not found in all fishes of this kind, but chiefly in the oldest and strongest. The uses of this...

...The whole oil of the fish is easily converted into spermaceti, and the ambergris is formed in a bag three or four feet long, in round lumps, from one to twenty pounds weight ; but it is only in the oldest and largest cachelots that these drugs can. be extracted. The spermaceti...

...us to beware of; for they carefully guard us against having our spermaceti adulterated with virgin wax. As to the ambergris, which is sometimes found...pounds weight, floating in a fluid rather thinner tlian oil, and of a yellowish colour. There are never seen more than four at a time in one of these...