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this work it appears, that numerous animals of this 

 kind, called in Feroe grind-vchales, wore frequent- 

 ly driven ashore hy hoats, and killed ; and that in 

 this way there were taken in two places, in the year 

 1664, ahout a thousand. Many other historical 

 notices of the capture of shoals of these whales are 

 to be met with. In the year 1748, 40 individuals 

 were seen in Torhay, and one, 17 feet in length, 

 was killed ; in 1799, about 200 of the deductor 

 species, 8 to 20 feet in length, ran themselves a- 

 ground at Taesta Sound, Fetlar, one of the Shet- 

 land Islands; February 25. 180.5, 190 of the same 

 kind, 6 to 20 feet long, were driven on shore at the 

 Uyea Sound, Unst, Shetland ; and, on the 19th of 

 March, in the same year, 120 more at the same spot. 

 In December 1806, 92 of this species were strand- 

 ed in Scalpa Bay, Orkney, measuring from 5 to 

 21 feet in length. It was observed of the last 

 three shoals, that numbers of the females were 

 suckling their young when they were driven on 

 shore, and so long as they continued alive, the milk 

 was seen to issue from their nipples *. In the win- 

 ter of 1809 and 1810, 1100 of these whales ap- 

 proached the shore in Hvalfiord, Iceland, and were 

 captured; and in the winter of 1814, 150 of the 

 same were driven into Balta Sound, Shetland, and 

 there killed. These are only a very small propor- 

 tion of the instances in which, in modern times, an 



* Neill's Tour and Dr Tuaili-'s MS. Notes. 



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