Excerpt from The Annals of Scottish Natural History: A Quarterly Magazine With Which Is Incorporated "the Scottish Naturalist" In one of the Sperm Whales there was a small quantity of ambergris, which sold for over GBP200. The Shetland stations are unwilling to give information, partly on account of the trouble it causes, and partly on account of the annoyance they have had from those who have tried to get up agitation against them on behalf of the herring fishers by distorting facts or inventing libels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.