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Show M.t lit. Welsh. Have you any Idea of tho slzo ot tho common Greenland whalo? Nlllson, the zoologist, eatlmatoa tho full grown-anlmal grown-anlmal to nverago 100 tons, or 221,000 pounds. That It' to say a it halo weighs aa much ns about SO elephants or bears. Of course some run larger than this. There are titles among old whalers whal-ers of whales HO feet long, and weighing weigh-ing at least 150 tons. Hut fuich are not seen In these days. A 70-foot whalo la a big one now. Still. It may glto some Idea ot what monsters aro occasionally occa-sionally killed when wo mention that a ton of nil has been extracted from the tongue of a slnglo whalo |