Note 148 — Chapter X

The Souffleur is the Delphinus Orca L. Because it is often seen at the northern Cape of Europe, the fishermen gave it the name of the Nordkaper. A figure and description of it may be found in the Phil. Trans. vol. lxxvii. p. ii. tab. 16, 17. I am rather surprised that the author should have been so soon acquainted with Professor Schneider’s work which did not appear till 1795, and that he makes no mention of John Hunter, whose observations on whales were translated from the Philosophical Transactions by my learned countryman Schneider, who added to them very valuable and useful notes. F.