A voyage to Spitzbergen / containing an account of that country, of the zoology of the North; of the Shetland Islands; and of the whale fishery

by John Laing

[18] Pennant’s Quadrupeds, vol. ii. p. 272.

[19] Apol. Rhod. lib. 1. Val. Flac. lib. 5: lin. 440. Gaudebant armine Phocæ.

[20] The largest we caught was only thirteen feet long and seven round.

[21] This account is conformable to that given by the greatest number of writers, but Fabricius seems to be of a different opinion as to the ferocity of the walrus. “Improviso vulneratus infeslat; venatore autem præviso fugit.” Faun. Groenl. p. 5.

[22] Faun. Groenl. p. 104.

[23] The Dutch, in the space of forty-six years caught 32,900 whales, the oil and whalebone of which sold for about £15,800,000. Malte Brun, tom. v. 298.

[24] Phipps, p. 195.

[25] Cancer pedatus et oculatus. Faun. Groenl. p. 33.

[26] Br. Zool. Edit. 1769, vol. iii. p. 37.

[27] Faun. Groenl. loc. cit.