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or privilege could stimulate the whaling business while Fel- 

 lows of the Roj'al Society and other savants were so fright- 

 fully illustrating its perils ? And see the whale that cruised 

 • off Joppa to pick np such Jonahs as might be cast over- 

 board, and was caught by the Harpers to illustrate their 

 fine edition of the Family Bible. Such a, representation 

 has enough of the horrible in it to frighten every good little 



WIIAT.E ' IJREAOIIING. 



boy from becoming a whaleman. I particularly object to 

 the circular saw which serrates the awful chasm from which 

 the repentant prophet is so summarily ejected. 



Jardin's whales, in his" NaturaHst's Library," are more gay 

 and festive. The good-natured spermaceti are buoyant and 

 smihng on the surface of the sea, but nine tenths of their 

 entire bulk are above the combing waves ; in fact, they ride 



