154 THE WHALE AND 



Carcass of a Spermaceti. Dental Equipments. 



CHAPTER X. 



CONQUEST AND DISPOSAL OF A BULL WHALE. 



Ye gentlemen of England, that live at home at ease, 

 Ah, little do ye think upon the dangers of the seas ! 



Ocean Song. 



I love thee when I see thee stand, 



The Hope of every other land : 



A sea-mark in the tide of Time, 



Rearing to heaven thy brows sublime. 



I love thee when I contemplate 



The full-orb'd grandeur of thy state : 



Thy laws and liberties, that rise, 



Man's noblest works beneath the skies ; 



To which the Pyramids are tame, 



And Grecian temples bow their fame. MONTGOMERY. 



Brazil Banks, Atlantic Ocean, off the Rio de la Plata. 



are just now at work upon the carcass 

 of a bull whale lately captured, a gen- 

 uine makrocephalus, which I have found by 

 measurement to be sixty feet long and thirty 

 feet round. His lower jaw-bone is sixteen feet 

 long, and it has forty-eight large teeth, some of 

 them a foot long, three of which are broken off, 

 and others much worn. There are also several 



