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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
remarks by observing, that as far as our own researches 
on this whale have extended, and we have visited him in 
his own unfathomable and vast domain, for the purpose 
of observing his habits and form, we have never had 
reason to suppose that more than one species of sper- 
maceti whale exists. And not until the queries insti- 
tuted by Cuvier are answered in the affirmative, and 
proved, “ and to be proved otherwise than by figures 
drawn by common sailors—not until such beings have 
been carefully observed by enlightened men— not until 
their osseous parts have been deposited in collections, 
where they can be verified by naturalists, shall we be 
justified in admitting more than one kind of sperm 
whale into the catalogue of animals,” 
