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FISHES I HAVE KNOWN 



over the other . . . the bundle of hairs from the 

 tips of the baleen fit into a hollow at the edge of 

 the jaws." A marvellous mechanism, which caused 

 the great naturalist to remark that no theory of 

 self-development, but only the omniscience of Him 

 who on the fifth day completed the work of 

 creation, would account for. 1 



Last in my summary of the whale species is the 

 huge rorqual, slender and elegant, in outline like a 



WHALEBONE, OK "RIGHT" WHALE. 



clipper, distinguished by having a dorsal fin which 

 is conspicuous as it tears along the surface of the 

 water. It swallows shoals of small fish, such as 

 herrings and mackerel, and has a small and 

 apparently useless fringe of baleen, but no teeth. 

 When fish are scarce it perhaps uses the baleen to 

 catch Crustacea. 



1 Whalebone was in December, 1904, worth ,3,000 a ton 

 for choice lots, or more than a sovereign per pound weight. 



