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Novel Clinque. Relative Anatomy. 



tinia sepia, and several species of marine 

 worms, are also employed in devouring and af- 

 fording 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 from out thy slime 

 T/ie 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, leis- 

 urely post-mortem of the subjects we have dis- 

 cussed. But a few clinical notes, roughly taken 

 by the bed-side, as the whalemen have been 

 operating between wind and water with their 

 professional spades and lances of dissection, are 

 all I have to exhibit. From the barrel-like size 

 of the protruding intestine of the last we have 

 dissected, or more properly peeled, it is reason- 

 able to infer by the law of relative proportions 

 on which Agassiz constructs a fish from a sin- 

 gle scale, that the great aorta of one of the 

 largest kind of whales can be but little less in 

 diameter than the bore of the main pipe of the 

 Croton water-works ; and the water roaring in 



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