species having short coarse heads, & comparatively thin tailed, long slender body & built like a racing yacht, the Finwhales great influential but their speed defied the ordinary hand labour. Then it was that the Norwegian whalers turned their attention to perfecting both the methods of capturing & the broad study of better steam whaling vessels of today, are the result. These boats are about one hundred feet in length, & carry on the bow a small cannon which shoots a harpoon weighing 1/2 cwt having an explosive head or point, when once a whale is killed it is filled with air & towed in to the whaling factory. A whaling station offers to the un-initiated a continual round of surprises. From the time the great animal performs her last breath drawn out on the "calf" until the last piecey flesh has been put in the tanks where the oil is extracted, the ease & swiftness with which the great career cleansing perhaps 7 or 8 tons is handled