The Mighty Deep 



for the sake of which it suffers too frequently- 

 cruel treatment at the hand of man. 



Many different kinds of whales inhabit the 

 sea, — such as the Rorqual, the Hump -backed, 

 the Ziphoid. The two which are most widely- 

 known, and which may be regarded as foremost 

 though unconscious rivals in human favour, are — 

 the Right Whale, of higher latitudes, and the 

 Sperm Whale of tropical regions. 



There is a Right Whale of Atlantic waters, 

 closely related to the Right or Greenland Whale 

 of Arctic Seas, though in some respects different. 

 But the Greenland Whale may be taken as the 

 typical specimen of its race. 



And a mighty creature it is ; often fifty feet, 

 and sometimes sixty or seventy, in length. A 

 ribbon passed belt-wise around that massive form, 

 at its thickest, would need to be something like 

 forty feet in length. So the Right Whale does 

 not boast a slim waist. 



The enormous head, with its capacious cavern 

 of a mouth, takes up about one -third of the 

 whole body. 



An individual of this size weighs some seventy 

 tons. And yet so light is its make — partly due 

 to the construction of its bones, partly no doubt 

 to its great lung capacity — that it actually weighs 



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