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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 3 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 2 Browse Search
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 1 1 Browse Search
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s for an artificial whalebone. Time has passed since the people of England reveled in whale meat. The whale was, however, eaten by the Saxons, and, when men were lucky enough to get it, it appeared at table late in the fifteenth century. In 1246, Henry III. directed the sheriff of London to purchase 100 pieces of whale for his table. Whales found on the coast were perquisites of royalty; they were cut up and sent to the king's kitchen in carts. Edward II. gave a reward of 20 shillingsf was also highly esteemed, but, of all the blubber dainties, the porpoise was deemed the most savory. The Saxons called it sea-swine, and the ecclesiastics of the Middle Ages porco-marino. Porpoises were purchased for the table of Henry III. in 1246. Whal′ing-im′ple-ments. See harpoon; bomb-lance. Patents No. 3,290, of 1843, and 9,478, of 1852, are for machines for cutting blubber. No. 8,843, of 1852, is an electric whalingappa-ratus. No. 35,476, of 1862, is for raising sunken