rove- The finback—Balenoptera—has long been a familiar Meantime the great deep held a small family, or at ment on the Indian methods. creature off our North Atlantic shores. Systematically, least a pair, of the lost whales, and in 1854 a female, ac- It was not until the whales becamescarce that… … became so scarce that they were pursued much of the body exposed when going in larger vessels, an hundred sails being rapidly, thus giving a most singular ex- fitted out from Boston.” The whale thus hibition of marine maneuvering. They have a habit, grounds,” the Bay of Biscay. The cub only was…
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