The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 113
lat nose. In the head is a natural oil-well—alarge cavity filled with sperm-oil, of which morethan twenty-five barrels have been taken from asingle whale. The sperm-whales sometimes reach a lengthof eighty-five feet, and those seventy feet longare not uncommon. They go in schools whichmay contain… … MOUTH OF GREENLAND WHALE. Showing strainers (baleen). 98 STRANGE FISH AND REPTILES 99
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