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“Nature’s strange work, vast Whales of different form, Toss up the troubled flood, and are themselves a storm. Uncouth the sight, when they, in dreadful play, Discharge their nostrils, and refund a sea.”
“Nature’s strange work, vast Whales of different form, Toss up the troubled flood, and are themselves a storm. Uncouth the sight, when they, in dreadful play, Discharge their no...
6. CHAPTER II.The Spermaceti as well as the Common Whale feeds on the smallest insects or animalcula of the ocean, its capacious mouth with the vast fringes of whalebone attached to the insid...
7. CHAPTER III.In the spring of 1811, on board of Capt. Scoresby’s ship, one of the harpooners struck a young whale, with the hope of its leading to the capture of its mother. Presently she ar...
8. CHAPTER IV.“As when enclosing harpooneers assail, In wintry seas, the slumbering Whale; Soon as the _harpoons_ pierce the scaly side, He groans, he darts impetuous down the tide; And rack’...
9. CHAPTER V.“Before a whale can be flensed, as the operation of taking off the fat and whalebone is called, some preliminary measures are requisite. These consist in securing the fish to a...
10. CHAPTER VI.There are six different species of seal sought after by man for their skins and fur, viz. the Common Seal, which frequents the sea-coasts throughout the world, the Hooded Seal,...