Animal products; . and the leather has been often sold at 15^. to 21s. per. lb. The skin when tanned has a great range of utility, comparing PORPOISE LEATHER. 395 favourably with the best French kid in beauty, cheapness, anddurability, whilst it is in high repute for the strongest shooting-boots. A tanned porpoise skin and shoes made of it are in the POLAR BEAR AND WHITE WHALE. No individual has done more to develop the trade and increasetheir utility than Mr. G. Roberts of the Hudsons Bay company received the first porpoise skins from their settle-ment in Littl
Animal products; . and the leather has been often sold at 15^. to 21s. per. lb. The skin when tanned has a great range of utility, comparing PORPOISE LEATHER. 395 favourably with the best French kid in beauty, cheapness, anddurability, whilst it is in high repute for the strongest shooting-boots. A tanned porpoise skin and shoes made of it are in the POLAR BEAR AND WHITE WHALE. No individual has done more to develop the trade and increasetheir utility than Mr. G. Roberts of the Hudsons Bay company received the first porpoise skins from their settle-ment in Little Whale River, on the east coast of Hudsons were imported as now in half skins in a salted state. undertook their development as leather on behalf of thecompany, and called with samples of the skins, and the leather thathad been made in Canada from them, on several of the tanners inBermondsey, who were all incredulous as to leather of such finequality being produced from this skin. Ultimately he met aM. Bossard, a French tanner in business in Bermondsey, who 396 PRODUCTS OF WHITE WHALE. took the matter up and produced from split skins, leather whichup to this time has not been surpassed. Although occasionally seen in the Bay of Chaleur and parts ofNew Brunswick, it is chiefly in the river St. Lawrence that thismammal is found. As early as 17
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