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drager give the summer-time as its season ; and likewise 

 Guldberg found it in summer at Iceland, especially in the 

 month of July. Of its southward migration in autumn we 

 have no definite knowledge. Off the New England coast, 

 where it was fished abundantly in the seventeenth and 

 eighteenth centuries (and as far south as Charleston), Dudley 

 tells us that its season was from January to May, while 

 Starbuck puts it from November to March or April. It was 

 there, that is to say, at much the same time of year as on 

 the opposite coast of Spain ; and accordingly, as Guldberg 

 has pointed out, we might assume two separate migrations, 

 or even two separate stocks of whales one on either side 

 of the North Atlantic, haunting the Spanish coast and 

 the New England coast alike in winter and early spring, 

 and journeying northward in the summer-time. Though it 

 may also be that both streams mingled in mid-Atlantic, in 

 early winter, perhaps in the latitude of the Azores. 



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