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which many persons predict will shortly come to pass on the 
north coast of Norway, namely, that the whales, decimated and 
harried, will cease to drive the shoals of fish in to the coast 
within reach of the fishermen. Herr Foyn at once therefore 
ordered the factory to be pulled down again, and on our passing 
Mehavn (just to the east of the Nord Kyn), on the morning of 
August 12th, we found Herr Foyn’s two sailing vessels with the 
materials of the factory lying there, having arrived the previous 
day; they were to begin discharging on the following day, and 
the factory will no doubt be completed in time to use next 
season. 
On August 11th, between Repvaag and Kistrand (Hast Fin- 
marken), we passed a small whale, fifteen or twenty feet long, 
which I did not see well enough to identify, but think it was 
most likely to have been a young example of one of the species 
of Balenoptera. 
On the 13th I visited Jar Fjord. There are three whaling 
establishments in this Fjord, besides “‘Jar Fjord’s Kraftfoder og 
Lim Fabrik”? (= Guano and Glue Factory), which buys the 
krangs of whales from the other factories after the blubber has 
been removed, and reduces the whole mass to the above useful 
commodities. The krang of a large female Blue Whale was 
hauled up on the slip here, which measured (as I saw for myself) 
seventy-five Norwegian feet in a straight line from nose to fork 
of flukes, that is, about seventy-eight feet two inches English. 
It had lost something of its length, from the under jaw having 
been removed, which projects beyond the upper, and also the loss 
of this bone brought the nose down at an angle, still further 
shortening the length, but, on the other hand, the cutting-away 
of so much of the muscles, &c., would cause the remainder of the 
mass to settle down flatter, and thereby increase the length a 
little. The flipper measured eleven feet five inches; the skull 
twenty feet ten inches (both English). It had been shot on the 
7th, and was said to have contained a foetus measuring about 
nine or ten feet. The unfortunate beast had been previously 
wounded, and when taken was found to be still living, with 
nearly all the flesh on the right side fallen away! 
A lower jaw-bone of this species lying at the Jar Fjord 
Whaling Factory measured twenty-two feet eight inches English, 
following the curve on the outside. The manager of this 
ZOOLOGIST.—APRIL, 1885. _ M 
