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CETACEA.—BALENADA.
and near the entrance of the throat being con-
sequently the shortest. The longest of these
lamine often measure fifteen feet and upwards in
length, and the abbreviation, anteriorly and poste-
riorly, is gradual. ach plate, as we have said,
is fringed, and the filaments of the fringe are very
numerous, and fill up the cavity of the mouth
sufficiently to form a strainer."[1]
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WHALE FISHERY.
The habits and economy of this species agree in many points with those of the Sperm Whale; and the general features of the “ fishery” for both are the same; but there are many differences in the details. The Greenland Whale seems to be, now at least, confined to the icy ocean that
- ↑ Pict. Museum, i. 243.
