On Some Points in the Anatomy of a Megaptera Longimana (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from On Some Points in the Anatomy of a Megaptera Longimana When at last successfully harpooned it Showed great strength and endurance for twenty-one hours, when the line parted, but it had been mortally wounded.1 This was on New Year's morning, 1884. A week afterwards the carcase was Observed by fishermen Off Bervie, on the coast Of Kincardineshire, ¿oating SO high as to be visible 6 miles Off. It was towed into Stone haven harbour on January 8, and beached there. My first Observations and measurements were made as it lay on its back at Stonehaven, and photographs were taken, from one Of which fig. 1 is taken. On the day after it was beached, the carcase, the property of the fishermen who found it, was exposed by public sale and purchased for a large price by Mr John Woods, Oil merchant, Dundee, with a view to exhibition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.