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Whaling G~n We saw yesterday, at the
store Of Capt. E. w. Gardner, a very curious con-
trivance for. killing whales. Ii is short gun,
weighing some twenty-five pounds-the stock be-
ing of solid brass-from which harpoon is to be
fred into the animal The handle of the harpoon
goes into the barrel of the gun about foot, and
line is fastened to it-of course outside ofthe gun


by which the whale is to be held. There is also
bomb lance, for the purpose of killing the animal


The instrument is loaded with powder, and a
slow matchis led from the magazine, through the
handle to the end which goes INTO The gun.
When the lance is fred into the whale the slow
match igni.es; and in about half a n1inute the
FIRE reaches the powder in the head of the instru-
ment, which instantly expIodes, killing the anl-
NAL outright AT least this is what the article is
intended to do. The whole apparatus is certainly
very Ingenious; whether or not IT rs Teaiiy an i-
proyement on the present mode Of killing whales,
is more than we are able to say. That is ques-
ton which must be settled bv the ,vhalemen them
selves. ,..-...,.., ,. .Nantaeket, Iaquirsf.