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was scattered around the world, plying upon the well-known cruising -grounds, 

 which were familiarly named as follow : 



SpEiai Whale Grou>vDS : Atlantic Ocean and contiguous vxiters. — Around the Azores 

 or Western Islands ; about the Capo de Verde Islands ; tlie Charleston Grounds ; 

 north of the Bahama Islands ; in the Gulf of Mexico ; in the Caribbean Sea ; about 

 the West India Islands ; on the coast of Africa ; and the Carrol Ground, which is a 

 space of ocean situated between the island of St. Helena and the coast of Africa. 



Sperm Whale Grounds: Indian Ocean and neigliboring vxiters. — To the south of 

 Madagascar, and between that island and Africa ; off the northern end of Mada- 

 gascar ; along the coast of Arabia, including the mouth of the Red Sea ; on the 

 coast of Java; Malacca Straits; on the north-western coast of Australia; on the 

 southern coast of Australia, and between it and Tasmania or Yan Dieman's Land. 



Sperm Whale Grounds: Pacific Ocean and adjacent ivaters. — The On-shore Ground, 

 which includes the whole extent of ocean between the southern boundary of Chile 

 and the northern limits of Peru, and west to the island of Juan Fernandez and the 

 Gallapagos group ; the Off- shore Ground, which extends to latitude 5^ and 10' 

 south of the equator, and from longitude 90' to 120' west ; off Cape Horn ; around 

 the Sandwich Islands ; in the vicinity of the Society Islands ; in the vicinity of the 

 Fiji Islands ; in the vicinity of the Navigator Islands ; about the King's ^lill 

 group ; about and to the south of the equator, from the coast of Ecuador to the 

 King's Mill group; across the South Pacific between the latitudes of 21' and 27'; 

 across the North Pacific between the latitudes of 27' and 35' ; otT the Bashee 

 Islands ; off the east coast of New Zealand ; on the Middle Ground between Aus- 

 tralia and New Zealand ; Sooloo Sea ; China Sea ; on the coast of Japan, and 

 between it and the Bonin Islands; on the North-western Coast of America; on the 

 coast of Upper and Lower California. Sperm Whales are also found in as high lati- 

 tudes as CO' south and 50' to GO' north. All these whaling -grounds, it will be 

 seen, were the resorting- places of the Sperm Wlialos, and consequently of their 

 captors, nearly all of them being in the temperate or tropical latitudes ; but the 

 Pvight Whales' feeding -grounds are chiefly in the colder regions, although some of 

 their resorts were upon coasts or banks in common with their congeners. The 

 principal grounds, however, of the Right and Polar- Whales were designated as fol- 

 lows : 



Northern Right Whale Grounds : Including those of the Bowhead or Polar Whale. 

 — On the Atlantic coast of North America, from Newfoundland south to the Bahama 

 Islands; on the North-western Coast of North America, wdiich includes Behring Sea; 

 on the coast of Kamschatka ; the Okhotslc Sea ; the Japan Sea ; tbe Gulf of Tar- 



