. The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America, described and illustrated; together with an account of the American whale-fishery. jfi? ¥ £ V0k W- S. Sntcon A Aey. LiUi. EYE AND PARASITES OF BALEEN CYAMUS * <} EIGHT EYE OF HUMPBACK nat size,. ,DALL ^ „ 5. OTIOH STDtPSONI DAIi,(SESSiLE On Cohonula Diadema^ „ SOTFTJSUS DALL i f „ 6. CRYPTOLEPAS KHACEIAMCTI BALL THE BOWHEAD, OR GREAT POLAR WHALE. 57 more. The depth to which the animal descends when pursued is not accuratelyknown, for as a general rule, it h
. The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America, described and illustrated; together with an account of the American whale-fishery. jfi? ¥ £ V0k W- S. Sntcon A Aey. LiUi. EYE AND PARASITES OF BALEEN CYAMUS * <} EIGHT EYE OF HUMPBACK nat size,. ,DALL ^ „ 5. OTIOH STDtPSONI DAIi,(SESSiLE On Cohonula Diadema^ „ SOTFTJSUS DALL i f „ 6. CRYPTOLEPAS KHACEIAMCTI BALL THE BOWHEAD, OR GREAT POLAR WHALE. 57 more. The depth to which the animal descends when pursued is not accuratelyknown, for as a general rule, it has been captured on soundings in the ArcticOcean and Behring Sea, as well as in the Sea of Okhotsk, where the depths, inplaces, do not exceed a hundred fathoms, and from that to less than fifty. Some-times they have been taken in very shallow water ; yet this animal, when in deepwater, has been known to sound out a line, in its descent and return, equal to amile in length. But it must not be inferred that this was done by the perpendic-ular course of the whale, for it is found that the line runs out with great swiftness,when the creature begins its return
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