Hand-colored lithograph of two stranded whales and two smaller cetaceans, with two men remarking on the smaller whales and a father and child looking at the larger ones. The whales are numbered 1-4, corresponding with the text in the book from which this image was taken: "To this family belongs the common whale, (Balaena mysticetus, Pl. IX. fig. 1), which is usually, by way of eminence, called the Whale, and seems to be confined to the northern regions of the earth. [...]The second family is that of Catodontidae, containing the toothed whales [...] this family contains the Spermaceti whale (Catodon macrocephaslus, Pl. IX. fig. 2) [...] The third family, DELPHINIAE, or Dolphins, has the head of moderate size, and there are teeth in both jaws [...] There are numerous species and genera, some of which are very carnivorous, especially the dolphins (Delphinus, Pl. IX. fig. 3) [...]The African Manatee (M. Senegalensis, Pl. IX. fig.4) is commmon on the wst coast of Africa, and resembles its congeners of the new world in habit."
