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Travels into North America, Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 3 — PETER KALM’s TRAVELS.

Johann Reinhold Forster translation

Another cetaceous fish, of the Dolphin kind,3 with which we met, is called by the sailors Bottle-nose, it swims in great shoals, has a head like a bottle, and is killed by a harpoon, and is sometimes eaten. These fish are very large, and some fully twelve feet long; their shape, and manner of tumbling and swimming make them nearly related to Porpesses. They are to be met with every where in the ocean from the channel to the very neighbourhood of America.

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