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Atlantic water penetrates into the Mediterranean as 

 far as Point da Gata in the south-east of Spain . . 255 



Table of Results 256 



The ratio, Salinity divided by Alkalinity, is greater 

 in the Atlantic than in the Mediterranean . . . 258 



No. 16. MONACO A WHALING STATION. [From The Times, 



June 15, 1896] 259 



This paper is an extract from a letter which I had the 

 honour to receive from H.S.H. the Prince of Monaco 

 after he had made a very successful experimental 

 whaling cruise in his yacht " Princesse Alice," and he 

 was good enough to permit me to publish it. 



On the occasion referred to by His Highness, when 

 an Orca was met in the previous season, and had an 

 unheimlich aspect, a whale of that species came to the 

 surface about a hundred yards from the yacht, swam 

 alongside it for the best part of a minute and fixed the 

 Prince and myself, who were observing it over the 

 bulwark, with a most menacing or unheimlich look, 

 and then submerged. 



By anticipation, it gave an amateur histrionic repre- 

 sentation of the dreadful professional tragedies which 

 have repeated themselves so frequently during the last 

 four years. 



Circumstances which induced the Prince of Monaco 

 to fit his yacht for whale fishing in the season of 1896 . 259 



Detailed description of a series of fights with whales 

 of different species, and especially with the predatory 

 Orca gladiator . . . . . . . .260 



No. 17. THE CRUISE OF THE "PRINCESSE ALICE" (1902). 



[From The Times, September 25, 1902] . . . 261 



Departure from Monaco i8th July . . . 261 



Capture of an Orca gladiator; the tongue served at 



lunch was excellent viande. 



Dredging in remarkably warm water ; overflow from 



Mediterranean. 



Temperature of mud in dredge agreed with that of 



thermometer in bottom water . . . . .262 

 The Josephine Bank : its surface very level . . 263 

 The island of St Michael's: at my last visit, 1873, it 



exported oranges; now pineapples .... 264 



