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Show Ambergris in Demand for Use in Perfumes Spanish ship, the crew of which four" 24S pounds in an Atlantic whale. In centuries forgotten, when spern whales were more abundant, auuiei gris did service in sacramental rite The Chinese administer It medici naily. Rut most that Is found toda.i (inds its way to perfumers, who us it as a fixative for delicate scents. When you tramp the margin of the sea, along the line where the waves leave seaweeds, bottle corks, and the unconsidered flotsam and jetsam which none sees fit to take away, make sure that the piece of stuff you look to be mottled soap is not a lump of ambergris. This precious sub stance, of which whalemen dream In their ambitious wanderings about the seven seas, conies from the alimentary canal of the sperm whale or cachalot. A few years ago Norwegians fishing In Australian waters found In one whale ambergri.o weighing approximately approxi-mately Odd pounds. It was worth $13r.IMK. By contrast, the whole production of the United States In 1022 only amounted to 44 pounds, worth about $1 1 ..ri(KI. And not no long ago a piece of good luck befell a |