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shores of the Pacific, — for there they annually 
congregate in the open bays and harbours ; hut here 
they are not unfrequently found upon the coast in 
pairs, and sometimes by three and four together. If 
my own experience would warrant me in fixing the 
period of their appearance with us, I should say that 
usually they come hither in spring. 
‘‘ The muzzle of the Cachelot is so remarkably 
shaped, and its spouting is so distinguishable from 
that of the Arctic Whales, that there is no mistaking it 
for any other of the Cetacea, whether it be seen near 
or far. I was in a small coasting vessel in May, 183^, 
in the Bight of Leogan, going from Jeremie to Port 
au Prince, when at about some five miles from the 
Island of Gonave, with light winds just pleasantly 
stirring the sea into ripples, we observed about two 
miles from us a Cachelot Whale slowly sinking and 
rising, and spouting as he went along. All of a 
sudden to our great surprise we saw him ^ hreacTi' 
He leaped clear out of the water, showing his huge 
hulk in the air, and seemed half as long as the dark 
wooded cliffs of the island against which his form 
was relieved.* He rose upward, — and descended 
splashing the water to a great height. The white 
foam, where his broad length struck the surface, 
mantled like a cloud and gave out a sound like that 
from a distant gun. He then immediately fluked, as 
the whalers say, showing his tail uppermost, and sunk 
■ ■ ■■ ■ - “Leviathan, 
Hugest of living creatures, on the deep 
Stretch’d like a promontory.” Milton. 
