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The Greenland Whale mysticetus) is the 



great representative of the race, furnishing the best and 

 most oil and whalebone. 



The Atlantic Right Whale (Balana cisarctica) has 

 been so nearly extinct, that no adult specimen has been 

 seen during the past century until 1 88 1 . when a female was 



