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escaped, but the young one was taken, and from a drawing- of a skeleton of the latter MM. 

 Eschricht and Rheinhardt, of Copenhagen, are convinced that it belonged to a species distinct 

 from the Greenland whale ; so that the name of ' Mysticete ' has been applied to various 

 whales/' 



The sperm whale, says Maury, is a warm water animal; the rigid whale delights in 

 cold water. The log-books of the American whalers show that the torrid zone is to the 



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right whale as a sea of fire, through which it cannot pass ; and that the right whale of 

 the northern hemisphere and that of the southern are two different animals ; and that the 

 sperm whale has never been known to double the Cape of Good Hope he doubles 

 Cape Horn. 



Mr. Beale has done more to elucidate the habits and form of this whale than any other 

 writer. Its great peculiarity of form is the head, presenting a very thick, blunt extremity, 

 about a third of the whole length of the animal. The head, viewed in front, has a 

 broad, flattened surface, rounded and contracted above, considerably expanded on the sides, and 

 gradually contracted below, resembling in some degree the cut-water of a ship. On the right 



