Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 471
h reaches alength of sixty feet and yields two hundredbarrels of oil and a thousand pounds of long,valuable baleen ; ■ the humpback whale, whichis sometimes seventy-five feet long, but hasshort bone and little oil; the finback and sul-phur-bottom whales, of large size but compara-tively little… … SPERM WHALE DEVOURING A LARGE OCTOPUS. cellent quality and large quantity of its baleen.The maximum length is sixty-five feet and itsbulk is immense; the huge head represents athird of the length, and the tail is sixteen totwenty feet across. The largest bow-headsproduce several thousand pounds of…
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