| As this band is pulled off, the body revolves, until
| the stripping reaches the smadl, when it will turn
| nomore. In the mean time, the head having been
| placed in an upright position, an opening is made
| in the front of the case, and the spermaceti dipped
| out with a bucket at the end of a pole. The
| gunk, a thick mass of tough, tendinous substance,
| situated beneath the case, is then extracted and
| cut into pieces, as well as the blubber; both of
| these substances being rendered into oil by means of heat. The products are then stowed away in
barrels in the hold.
| The preparation of the crude spermaceti, when | brought home, is thus performed :—*“‘ ‘The mass is | put into hair or woollen bags, and pressed between | plates of iron in a screw-press, until it becomes | hard and brittle; it is then broken into small | pieces, and thrown into boiling water, where it melts, and the impurities are separated from it. | After being cooled, and taken from the first water, | itis put into a boiler of clean water, and a weak solution of potash is gradually added. ‘This is | thrice repeated, after which the whole is poured into coolers, when the spermaceti concretes into a | white semi-crystallized mass, and on being cut into | small pieces exhibits a beautiful flaky appearance, so well known as belonging to the spermaceti of commerce.”
Famity IIl. BaLt@napez.
( Whales.)
As in the Cachalots, the head of the true Whales 4s of enormous bulk as compared with the body and extremities, but it does not terminate in a
