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ARCTIC WRAERU S. 
the flope of the Echouerie, are deprived by the darknefs of the 
night from every direction to the water, they are left wandering, 
about, and killed at leifure, thofe that are neareft the fhore being 
the firft victims. In this manner have been killed fifteen or fix- 
teen hundred at a cut. 
«© The people then fkin them, and take off a coat of fat which al- 
ways furrounds them, and diffolve it into oil. The fkin is cut 
into flices of two or three inches wide, and exported to America 
for carriage traces, and into England for glue. The teeth make 
an inferior fort of ivory, and is manufactured for that purpofe ; 
but very foon turns yellow.” 
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