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WESTERN HINDOOS TAN. 149
A Captain Coffin, engaged in the fouthern or Guinea whale
fifhery, found in a female fpermaceti whale, three hundred
and fixty ounces of ambergrife. This is faid not to be unufual,
but then it always is in fickly emaciated fifties. Thefe instances
do not prove that it was the production of the fpermaceti
whale, the food of which is /quids, or the fepia: many of the
horny beaks were found adhering to the ambergrife, or irrx-
merfed in that foft fubftance. It appears to me, that the
whales fometimes fwallow it, that it difagrees with them, and
3<Sts as a fort of poifon, bringing on a decay, and death; and
that the parts of the fepia found lodged in it, are the undiffolved
remains lodged in the ambergrife. Mr. Coffin fold his prize at
nineteen millings and nine pence per ounce. This is related in.
Phil. Tranf. lxxxi. p. 43.
Midway between thefe ifles and thofe of the Maldives, is Isee of Mau*-
the ifle of Malique, a fmall, low, and folitary fpot, furrounded Q?E'
with breakers, feated in Lat. 8° 20' north. It is inhabited, and
dependent on a Rajah on the Malabar coaft. A large fhallop
of twenty-two oars came off to a French India' fhip in 1770:
among the people were three who appeared of rank, and who
very politely offered their fervices to the European officer.
The Maldive iflands are to the fouth of the laft. They 'MAtDn/E
extend from north to fouth, inclining a little to the fouth-eaft, IsLANIJS*
from Lat. 70 25' to a little more than Lat. Is. Thefe are the
moft lingular and numerous groups of ifles in the world:
From their number Ptolemy names them Infula mccclxxviii;
The Nubian Geographer calls thefe ifles Robaihat.
The,
A Captain Coffin, engaged in the fouthern or Guinea whale
fifhery, found in a female fpermaceti whale, three hundred
and fixty ounces of ambergrife. This is faid not to be unufual,
but then it always is in fickly emaciated fifties. Thefe instances
do not prove that it was the production of the fpermaceti
whale, the food of which is /quids, or the fepia: many of the
horny beaks were found adhering to the ambergrife, or irrx-
merfed in that foft fubftance. It appears to me, that the
whales fometimes fwallow it, that it difagrees with them, and
3<Sts as a fort of poifon, bringing on a decay, and death; and
that the parts of the fepia found lodged in it, are the undiffolved
remains lodged in the ambergrife. Mr. Coffin fold his prize at
nineteen millings and nine pence per ounce. This is related in.
Phil. Tranf. lxxxi. p. 43.
Midway between thefe ifles and thofe of the Maldives, is Isee of Mau*-
the ifle of Malique, a fmall, low, and folitary fpot, furrounded Q?E'
with breakers, feated in Lat. 8° 20' north. It is inhabited, and
dependent on a Rajah on the Malabar coaft. A large fhallop
of twenty-two oars came off to a French India' fhip in 1770:
among the people were three who appeared of rank, and who
very politely offered their fervices to the European officer.
The Maldive iflands are to the fouth of the laft. They 'MAtDn/E
extend from north to fouth, inclining a little to the fouth-eaft, IsLANIJS*
from Lat. 70 25' to a little more than Lat. Is. Thefe are the
moft lingular and numerous groups of ifles in the world:
From their number Ptolemy names them Infula mccclxxviii;
The Nubian Geographer calls thefe ifles Robaihat.
The,