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Excerpt from The Natural History of the Order Cetacea: And the Oceanic Inhabitants of the Arctic Regions
This work embraces a comprehensive account of the Natural History of every known animal inhabiting the Polar Seas, from the mighty Leviathan of the deep down to the almost invisible animalculae and from the circumstance of these dreary regions having been so recently visited by that intrepid and scientific navigator, Captain Ross, who has so much enriched our geogra phical knowledge of these bleak abodes, by his valuable and important discoveries; the author flatters himself, in consequence of this fact, that this hitherto neg looted department of the Arctic Oceanic Zoology, will be perused with a greater degree of interest by his sub scribers, than it might otherwise have possessed. The author has endeavoured to render the language easy and comprehensive (devoid of technical terms), but at the same time equally valuable to the practical Zoologist and the man of science, as it is interesting and instruo tive to the general reader. 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.
