. Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1902. colorless and of cr^^stalclearness. Much of the product is sold for repairers use in woodenboxes containing 1 dozen half-ounce bottles, each bottle inclosed ina small pasteboard box. The remainder, in tin cans having capacityfor 1 pint, 1 quart, or of larger capacity, goes to the manufacturersof watches, clocks, chronometers, typewriters, etc. Report U. S. F. C. 1902. Plate AQUATIC PRODUCTS IK ARTS AND INDUSTRIES. 209 OILS FROM SEALS, WALRUS, ETC. Tiie blubber or fat lying between the skin and the muscular tissuesof the vario
. Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1902. colorless and of cr^^stalclearness. Much of the product is sold for repairers use in woodenboxes containing 1 dozen half-ounce bottles, each bottle inclosed ina small pasteboard box. The remainder, in tin cans having capacityfor 1 pint, 1 quart, or of larger capacity, goes to the manufacturersof watches, clocks, chronometers, typewriters, etc. Report U. S. F. C. 1902. Plate AQUATIC PRODUCTS IK ARTS AND INDUSTRIES. 209 OILS FROM SEALS, WALRUS, ETC. Tiie blubber or fat lying between the skin and the muscular tissuesof the various members of the Pninipedia yields oil of much impor-tance for technical x^urposes. The i:>rincipal varieties on the marketare from the common seals or hair-seals of the North Atlantic, thewalrus, the sea-elephant, and the sea-lions. Each of these will bediscussed separately. SEAL OILS. Seals are found in various northern waters and especially off thecoast of Labrador and Newfoundland, in the waters of Greenland,the Arctic Ocean north of Europe, in Caspian Sea, along the NovaScotian and New England coasts, in the Northern Pacific, and to amucli less extent in the Antarctic seas. The princix^al fisheries arein the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans, especially off the coasts ofNewfoundland, Greenland, and Northern Europe. The Oasx)ian Seaalso affords an inqjortant seal fishery. The blubber of seals ranges in thickness from 1 to 3 in
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