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probably, and per contra, the back was bent, and the under jaw 
off. Nose to back of blow-holes, 14 ft. Flipper over 10 ft. long, 
but, as I could not distinguish the head of the humerus in the 
mass of displaced krang, I was unable to measure it accurately. 
Greatest width, 2ft. 7in. Skull at the widest point (zygomatic 
arches), 9 ft. 6in.; immediately in front of the zygomatic 
arches, 6 ft. In a heap of under-jaw bones of this species at 
this factory were some very large specimens: one measured 
363 in. in height at the coronoid process ; several other maxille 
were piled across it, so I could not measure its length, but 
another very large ramus, which may have been its fellow, 
measured 21 ft. 9in. along the curve; of this one I was unable 
to measure the height. Some baleen plates here measured 
34 in. by 24 in., and would have been probably fully 8 in. 
wider when in the mouth, before the small inner part was 
cut off. These were, I think, the largest I have met with. 
Captain Horn, of Yeretiki, told me of the following measure- 
ments (Norwegian) of this species which he had taken this 
season :—July 12th, female, 85 ft.,* no foetus, very fat, giving 
about 95 petroleum casks of oil; July 24th, female, 82 ft., with 
milk running; ditto, male, 75 ft.; Aug. 9th, female, 81 ft. 
The first Blue Whale killed off Yeretiki was on June 6th, a 
female, 72 ft. (Norwegian) long. With the exception of Ara (June 
15th), I do not know the date of killing the first by any of the 
ships, except the ‘Glimt,’ which took one in May, which was 
considered unusually early. 
Common RorquaL.— Capt. Horn informed me that on his 
passage north with his whalers in the beginning of March, he 
only saw two or three of this species. He only found one fetus 
during the season, about 4 ft. (Norwegian) long, in an example 
killed May 7th, measuring 62 ft. (Norwegian). Capt. Fredriksen 
(Kobholm Fjord) found a fcetus in (he believes) April, about 
5 ft. long, and each succeeding one was bigger, until, on July 
2nd, he found one about 12 ft. long. A small example, killed 
by one of Capt. Sérensen’s boats on Sept. 7th, measured 57 ft. 
(English) ina straight line. Nose to blow-holes, 9 ft. 6in. Nose 
4 eye, 10 ft. t. Bi in. _Length of flipper, 6 ft. 5 in. eprcad of flukes, 
* These 1 measurements were ee faked: iow ite curves, but, as 
the Norwegian foot equals almost exactly 121 in. English, it must at least 
have been over 80 it. long. 
