*i am aware that down to the present time, the fish styled lamatins and dugongs (pig-fish and sow-fish of the coffins of nantucket) are included by many naturalists among the whales. but as these pig-fish are a noisy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, i deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the kingdom of cetology.