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104 They go much the ame Way to work in killing of Seals, except that the Harpoon is leer, to which is fatened a Line of ix or even Fathom long, at the End of which is a Bladder or Bag made of a mall  filled with Air, to keep the Seal, when he is wounded, from diving under the Water, and being lot again. In the Northern Parts, where the Sea is frozen over in the Winter, they ue other Means in catching of Seals. They firt look out for Holes, which the Seals themelves make with their Claws about the Bignes of a [sic]Halfpeny, that they may fetch their Breath; after they have found any Hole, they eat themelves near it upon a Chair, made for this Purpoe; and as oon as they perceive the Seal coming up to the Hole and put his Snout into it for ome Air, they immediately trike him with a mall Harpoon, which they have ready in their Hand, to which Harpoon is fatened a Strap a Fathom long, which they hold with the other Hand. After he is truck, and cannot ecape, they cut the Hole o