586 ON THE GREENLAND WHALE. 



the dead carcase ; and the whale is seen to fly those 

 quarters of the sea where the shark abounds. 



Hitherto no accurate representation of this vast 

 animal has appeared in the writings of zoologists. 

 The drawing here engraved I executed in Green- 

 land, and its accuracy was proved, by finding that 

 it agreed in every particular with the numerous 

 individuals I afterwards met with in the Arctic 

 Ocean. 



