American - Author | June 11, 1956 -
Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.
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