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:he (jitantity of blood thrown into it at every 

 ti..n of I), . is nut It ss than from t.- 



ii gallon-. 



1 -!i of tlu 1 .threat Northern Whale is 



prod . it is able to shatter a strong canoe in 



ith a a tail : it swims, 



. the compulation of CVpede, at the 

 bout thirty-three feet in a second, and it 

 rther computed that i;i the space of about 

 forty-seven days, it might circumnavigate the 

 globe in the direction of the equator, even allow- 

 ing it to rest by night during the whole time. It 

 imposed to !.,- an extremely long-lived animal. 

 The ii male product ncral, but one young 



at a birth, which usually measures something more 

 than i in length; and she ha.s the repu- 



>n of being very tenderly attached to her 



The hast of all the Whalebone-Whales or Lin- 



* B. Glacialis or Nord-Caper is a very large species of Whale, 

 but thinner in proportion than the Mysticete : it is an extremely 

 voracious animal ; preying on many kinds of fish, and in par- 

 ticular on Cod and Herring. In the stomach of this Whale 

 have been observed three hundred Cod : and in tin* stomach of 

 4 second individual were found more than a tun of herring*. 

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