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One of our harpooneers told me that he caught once a whale in Spitz- 
bergen that was white all over.” 
A Voyage to Greenland , a. d. 1671. (Harris Coll.) 
“Several whales have come in upon this coast (Fife). Anno 1652, one 
eighty feet in length of the whale-bone kind came in, which (as I was 
informed) besides a vast quantity of oil, did afford 500 weight of baleen. 
The jaws of it stand for a gate in the garden of Pitferren.” 
Sibbald’s Fife and Kinross. 
“Myself have agreed to try whether I can master and kill this Spermaceti 
whale, for I could never hear of any of that sort that was killed by any 
man, such is his fierceness and swiftness.” 
Richard Strafford’s Letter from the Bermudas. 
Phil. Trans., a. d. 1668. 
‘‘Whales in the sea 
God’s voice obey.” 
N. E. Primer. 
“We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in those 
southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the 
northward of us.” 
Captain Cowley’s Voyage round the Globe, a. d. 1729. 
. . . “and the breath of the whale is frequently attended with such an 
insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.” 
Ulloa’s South America. 
“To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, 
<V"e trust the important charge, the petticoat. 
Oft have we known that seven-fold fence to fail, 
Tho’ stiff with hoops and armed with ribs of whale.” 
Pape of the Loclc. 
“If we compare land animals in respect to magnitude, with those that 
take up their abode in the deep, we shall find they will appear contemp- 
tible in the comparison. The whale is doubtless the largest animal in crea- 
tion.” 
Goldsmith, Nat. His , 
