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of, which feed on herring, round the Shetlands and British 

 coast, locally called Herring Hog, or Springer, run to thirty 

 feet or so. They are not hunted as yet by the modern 

 whaler as they are rather too small to be worth towing to 

 the station, but no doubt their day will come when our 

 industries need them, and the large whales become more 

 shy and hard to capture. 



Arctic and Antarctic Proportions 



