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an hundred fathoms long; and, in this deptli of fca, the prcniire 

 of water on the bottom, is much greater than is commonly ima- 

 gined. 



For, fuppofing the ocean, in any given place, to be 1400 fathoms 

 deep, and each fathom to contain fix feet, which is the common 

 meafure, it follows, that the ocean is, in luch a place, 84,00 feet deep. 



It is well known, that a cubic foot of water, fuch as is found in our 

 canals, weighs 6g jwunds, but that the fame quantity of fca water, 

 being in its nature heavier, does not weigh lefs than 66j; pounds ; 

 but taking it only at 66 pounds, the refult will be, tliat every cubic 

 foot of fea water, where the ocean is 8400 feet deep, does jjrefs on 

 the bottom with the weight of 554,400 pounds. And, with regard to 

 the whale lines, wiiich I have faid are 100 fathoms long, I am told 

 that they are more commonly 120 fathoms, which gives a deptli of 

 16,080 feet. 



The fame Captain Krimpen, in a fubfequent converfation informed 

 me, that this Whale, having run out the length of fourteen lines, lay 

 on the fandy bottom of the fea at that depth, from whence it was 

 weighed up or raifed by means of the windlafs, and he added, that he 

 fliould not have fucceeded in getting up this fifli, unlefs the line, 

 which by the harpoon iron was fixed in it, had alfo got a turn 

 or two round the tail, by which means, the Whale was brought up 

 to the furface, the tail foremofl. 



The weighing up this Whale, was atfirfl fo difficult and laborious, 

 that fix men at leafi, were necefiarily employed in heaving at the 

 windlafs, and no lefs than fix hours were fpent in the operation. 

 But, when all the lines lave one, were hove in, the labour became as 

 nothing ; for which latter circumftance, I afilgned to Krimpen, this 

 twofold reai'on, that the prellure of the water on the Whale was then 

 greatly diminiflied ; and, that the filh abounding with oily or fatty 

 parts, which are lighter than water, would have a tendency to be 

 buoyaiit. 1 



