Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 80
aps the reader, being likemyself a mere layman, so to speak, may be better ableto appreciate description free from scientific formulaand nine-jointed words. Two things I did notice on this occasion which I willbriefly allude to before closing this chapter. One wasthe peculiar skin of the whale. It… … Greeners Harpoon Gun andHarpoon. blubber, was a layer or coating of what for want of abetter simile I must call fine, short fur, although unhkefur it had no roots or apparently any hold upon theblubber. Neither was it attached to the skin whichcovered it; in fact, it seemed merely a sort of…
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