NIMROD OF THE SEA; OR, 



great rounded joint at the base of the skull gleams like an 

 ivory sphere, nearly as large round as a carriage - wheel. 

 Through the greatest blood-vessels, more than a foot in di- 

 ameter, surges, at each pulsation of a heart as large as a 

 hogshead, a torrent of barrels of blood heated to 104. The 

 respiratory canal is over twelve inches in diameter, through 

 which the rush of air is as noisy as the exhaust pipe of a 

 thousand horse -power steam-engine; and when the fatal 

 wound is given, torrents of clotted blood are sputtered into 

 the air or over the nauseated hunters. In conclusion, the 

 right whale has an eye scarcely larger than a cow's, and an 

 ear that would scarcely admit a knitting-needle. 



