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you may wade among them and put the flip-noofe over their 

 tails, or fecure them with an iron, and hawl them up on the 

 beach, where they are ftuck in the jugular veins with a knife, 

 and foon die by bleeding. 



The blubber or fat on thefe fifli is from one to two inches 

 thick, and they make on an average fix gallons of oil. After 

 they are dead the blubber is cut through on the belly and on 

 the back from the head to the tail, and is pealed off from the 

 flefti or lean part in halves. The fkin of thofe fifh is fo clofe 

 to the blubber, that there appears to be no feparation, and it 

 cannot be feparated in the ufual way with a knife. Thefe half 

 fides when taken from the Porpoife are laid on a beam fimilar 

 to the one a currier or tanner ufes in taking the ilefh or hair 

 from hides, with the Ikin downwards, and with a knife not 

 unlike a currier's flefhing inife, the blubber is pared down 

 till y "U get to the Ikin ; they ar^ then fent to the tanner, when 

 they are made into leather, which is the ftrongeil of any hitherto 

 known, and is excellent for the upper leather of boots and 

 fhoes. 



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