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to visitors, by the self-maintained light, the 

 places in the walls and ceiling, where the differ- 

 ent organs lay. It would be like a painter at 

 Rome who should open his studio in the Par- 

 thenon ; the celestial gods would be eyeing him 

 from the ceiling ; deified men and the infernals 

 would be looking on him from all around. And 

 if the aforesaid phrenologist and favoured artist 

 should not alike become masters under circum- 

 stances so imposing, it would be nobody's fault 

 but their own. 



But to finish the disposal of our present 

 prize : The lower jaw, with the teeth all in it, 

 was first separated by the sharp spades in the 

 hands of the officers, from the head, and hoisted 

 in upon deck ; then the upper jaw was separated 

 from the mass of crown, forehead, and head- 

 matter, or spermaceti; and then what whalers 

 call the junk, or the mighty mass of blubber, 

 was separated from the case, which is the name 

 they give to the brain-pan, white horse, integu- 

 ments, and flesh of the head. The junk was 

 hoisted in on deck, weighing, I will not say 

 how many thousand pounds. The former cap- 



