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

[28] Blackstone, vol. i. p. 223. Edit. 1783.

[29] Compare Fab. de Bal. Myst. with Arrian, Hist. Ind. § 29 and 30.

[30] Congreditur corpore erecto, capite supra aquam prominente. Faun. Groenl. loc. cit.

[31] Hist. Ind. § 29 and 30.

[32] Fifteen hundred fathoms.

[33] There is at the Stadthouse at Amsterdam, the skull of a Narwhal, with two horns. There is likewise a skull to be seen in Hamburgh, having two horns, each above seven feet long, and eight inches round.

[34] Forst. Voy. p. 353.

[35] See Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

[36] Twenty-four whalemen were taken by the British in the late war.

[37] The intrepidity of the Finmarker, and the dangers he has to encounter in the chase of the seal, are well described in Acerbi’s excellent Travels in the North, vol. i. p. 291.