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THE WHALE FISHERY. 



PllEFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



In the following pages the Author has endeavoured 

 to describe, with some minuteness of detail, a few 

 of the many objects of interest more or less directly 

 connected with the Sea, and especially to lead 

 youthful readers to associate with the phenomena 

 of Nature, habitual thoughts of God. A subject 

 so vast as the Ocean might be viewed in a variety 

 of aspects, all of them more or less instructive : the 

 one which has been chosen is that in which it 

 presents itself to the mind of a naturalist, desirous 



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