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exceptionally full of ice, but a passage was made to Prince Regent 
Inlet, a favourite resort of the Black and also of the White Whale. 
' Here the crew succeeded in capturing three Black Whales, one 
of medium size, with 9 ft. 3 in. in bone, one small fish, the third 
being a sucker. After the disappearance of the Black Whales 
the ‘Maud’ proceeded down the Inlet to Elwin Bay, where a 
shoal of White Whales was surrounded by the boats and the 
fish driven into a sheltered creek. Here on the tide receding 
the men entered the water and speared the fish, 300 of which 
were captured. The scene at the capture was most exciting, the 
men being waist-deep in the water, while the fish were raising 
the mud by the violent lashing of their tails in their struggles to 
escape. After these Whales—all large males—had been got on 
board it was found that the ‘Maud’s’ tanks were full, and she 
returned through Lancaster Sound and down the W. side of Davis 
Straits, along which so much ice was packed that there was no 
chance of prosecuting the fishing, even although Whales had been 
seen. The ‘ Maud’ accordingly bore up for home. 
I have again to thank Messrs. W. Grieve & Co., of Greenock, 
for the statistics of the Newfoundland Sealing; Mr. David Bruce 
and Mr, Kinnes, of Dundee, and Capt. David Gray and his son 
Mr. Robert Gray, of Peterhead, have also, as usual, very kindly 
rendered me great assistance. 
FIELD NOTES IN WESTERN SWEDEN. 
By F. P. Jounson. 
Tue following notes were made in the summer of 1888, when 
I paid a short visit to a relative who happened to be renting the 
fishing and shooting of Lake Ann, in Western Sweden. This 
lake is fed by three tributaries, all of which rise upon the water- 
shed dividing Norway from Sweden. ‘Their united waters pass 
through a chain of lakes, of varying extent, and flowing eastward 
as the River Ljungan, enter the Gulf of Bothnia near Sundsvall. 
Lake Ann extends about ten miles in length, and probably 
measures seven miles in span, including several large islands 
within its area. Its depth is for the most part insignificant, but 
the southern extremity is very deep. The finest of its tributaries 
