will not dive but plunge along the surface. [spoint] The spout is somewhat like that of a humpback i.e. low + "bushy". It seldom rises to as great a height as a that of a Humpback but may upon occasion rise. Generally it goes up seven or eight feet. Capt. Welsom says that sometimes when he has been directly before behind a Gray Whale that the column is divided [about 1 in 4 whales] but this very seldom; generally no divisions can be detected. The number of times that the animals spout at a rising seems to be as variable as with other whales. They may blow, [Two, three] times while plunging along near the surface, or come up, spout once and go down. Capt Welsom told me that one day he was chasing a Gray Whale in a perfectly smooth sea! The animal went down and was under about fifteen minutes. Finally they heard a slight sound near the ship and saw a light cloud of vapor floating away over a field of riffs. The whole had just putted his blowholes up, spouted very quietly and gone [down] down again for ten or