. Dwellers of the sea and shore . GREENLAND WHALE. with them at sea is by their manner of disappearing under the surface. The right whales dive with the great head almost straight down into the water, throw- ing upward the flukes of the tail, while the rorquals, on the other hand, sink out of sight gradually, much in the way that a submarine boat disappears from view. The most famous of the right whales is the Green- land, or Arctic, whale. This is the true polar species, seldom or never being found far from the Arctic ice. It was at one time the object of a great luiropean fishery. Holland, E
. Dwellers of the sea and shore . GREENLAND WHALE. with them at sea is by their manner of disappearing under the surface. The right whales dive with the great head almost straight down into the water, throw- ing upward the flukes of the tail, while the rorquals, on the other hand, sink out of sight gradually, much in the way that a submarine boat disappears from view. The most famous of the right whales is the Green- land, or Arctic, whale. This is the true polar species, seldom or never being found far from the Arctic ice. It was at one time the object of a great luiropean fishery. Holland, England, and France were chiefly engaged, but a large Dutch settlement in Spitzbergen employed no less than 260 ships and 14,000 men in
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