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OFF NEWFOUNDLAND. 
(lays later, we met a school of fin-backed whales, great, 
crude, wallowing sea-hogs, snorting out fountains of 
white spray, and tumbling, porpoise fashion, one over 
another about the vessel. My journal compares them 
to a huge old-fashioned India-ruhber shoe. 
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