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when the bones are hardened, the body of the creature cannot be ex- 

 tended to a larger iize. 



Having once, with the afllftance of an able geometrician, and by 

 tlie eye with the help of quadrants, meafured the height of the tower 

 of our new churcli in Delft, we found it to be 299 feet.* So that the 

 depth of the fea, to whicli the Whale I have mentioned defcended, 

 was twentj^-fix times as much as the height of that tower. 



* The London reader will be better able to judge of thcfe altitudes, (the word altitude 

 taken in the fenfe of the Latin, althudo^ from which it is derived, fignifies both height and 

 depth) by comparing them with the Church of St. Paul's or the Monument : the former of 

 thefe is about 500 feet in height, and the latter 200 ; fo that if we call the height of the ftecple 

 at Delft 300 feet, the Church of St. Paul's is two thirds higher, and the Monument one 

 third lower than that fteeple. And the depth of fea from whence the Whale was raifcd, was 

 equal to forty-two times the height of the Monument, and more than fixtcen times the height 

 «f St. Paul's. 







