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VEETEBRATA. 
THE GKBENLAJTD ■WHALE. 
ORDER 12.-CETACEA. 
We have hitherto been occupied upon the land, or if sometimes led into the water, it has heen 
only in rivers and lakes or along the shores of the sea, and then but casually ; we now enter the 
sea as the permanent abode of the animals whose characters we have to study. This order, the 
C^iTAOEA, which includes the numerous species of Whales and a multitude of allied animals, is 
