ANATOMY OF THE WHALE, 53 



of the northern shrimps, that joints of meat 

 hung out by Captain Parry's crew from the 

 sides of the ship were in a few nights picked 

 to the very bone, and nothing could be placed 

 within their reach except bodies of which it 

 was desired to obtain the skeleton. Many of 

 the zoophytical and molluscous orders, particu- 

 larly Actinia sepia, arid several species of ma- 

 rine worms, are also employed in devouring and 

 affording food to various other animals." 



We learn, then, that the law of mutual con- 

 sumption holds throughout the wide domain of 

 the deep. And Byron was literally correct when 

 saying, in his apostrophe to the Ocean, 



" Even /row out thy slime 

 TJie monsters of the deep are made." 



The internal anatomy of a whale is to me 

 a subject of great curiosity, and I wish it were 

 in my power to report a full and accurate, lei- 

 surely post-mortem of the subjects we have 

 discussed. But a few clinical notes, roughly 

 taken by the bed-side, as the whalemen were 

 operating between wind and water with their 

 professional spades and lances of dissection. 



