The discription of this Whale seems omitted by _Gesner_, _Rondeletius_, and the first Editions of _Aldrovandus_; but describeth the latin impression of _Pareus_, in the Exoticks of _Clusius_, and the natural history of _Nirembergius_; but more amply in Icons and figures of _Johnstonus_. Mariners (who are not the best Nomenclators) called it a _Jubartas_, or rather _Gibbartas_. Of the same appellation we meet with one in _Rondeletius_, called by the _French_ Gibbar, from its round and Gibbous back. The name _Gibbarta_ we find also given unto one kind of _Greenland_ Whales: But this of ours seemed not to answer the Whale of that denomination; but was more agreeable unto the _Trumpa_ or Sperma-Ceti Whale: according to the account of our _Greenland_ describers in _Purchas_. And maketh the third among the eight remarkable Whales of that Coast. Out of the head of this Whale, having been dead divers days, and under putrifaction, flowed streams of oyl and Sperma-Ceti; which was carefully taken up and preserved by the Coasters. But upon breaking up, the Magazin of Sperma-Ceti, was found in the head lying in folds and courses, in the bigness of goose eggs, encompassed with large flakie substances, as large as a mans head, in form of hony-combs, very white and full of oyl. Some resemblance or trace hereof there seems to be in the _Physiter_ or _Capidolio_ of _Rondeletius_; while he delivers, that a fatness more liquid then oyl, runs from the brain of that animal; which being out, the Reliques are like the scales of _Sardinos_ pressed into a mass; which melting with heat, are again concreted by cold. And this many conceive to have been the fish which swallowed _Jonas_. Although for the largeness of the mouth, and frequency in those seas, it may possibly be the _Lamia_. Some part of the Sperma-Ceti found on the shore was pure, and needed little depuration; a great part mixed with fetid oyl, needing good preparation, and frequent expression, to bring it to a flakie consistency. And not only the head, but other parts contained it. For the carnous parts being roasted, the oyl dropped out, an axungious and thicker parts subsiding; the oyl it self contained also much in it, and still after many years some is obtained from it. _Greenland_ Enquirers seldom meet with a Whale of this kind: and therefore it is but a contingent Commodity, not reparable from any other. It flameth white and candent like Camphire, but dissolveth not in _aqua fortis_, like it. Some lumps containing about two ounces, kept ever since in water, afford a fresh and flosculous smell. Well prepared and separated from the oyl, it is of a substance unlikely to decay, and may out last the oyl required in the Composition of _Mathiolus_.