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there, and towed into harbour. He has a great pack on him like a 
pedlar ; or you might call him the Elephant and Castle whale. At any 
rate, the popular name for him does not sufficiently distinguish him, 
since the sperm whale also has a hump, though a smaller one. His oil 
is not very valuable. He has baleen. He is the most gamesome and 
light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white water 
generally than any other of them. 
BOOK I. (Folio), Chapter V. (Razor-Back) . — Of this whale little 
is known but his name. I have seen him at a distance off Cape Horn. 
Of a retiring nature, he eludes both hunters and philosophers. Though 
no coward, he has never yet shown any part of him but his back, which 
rises in a long sharp ridge. Let him go. I know little more of him, 
nor does anybody else. 
BOOK I. (Folio), Chapter YI. (Sulphur-Bottom). — Another retir- 
ing gentleman, with a brimstone belly, doubtless got by scraping along 
the Tartarian tiles in some of his profounder divings. He is seldom 
seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern 
seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance. 
He is never chased ; he would run away with rope-walks of line. Prodi- 
gies are told of him. Adieu, Sulphur-Bottom! I can say nothing 
more that is true of ye, nor can the oldest Hantucketer. 
Thus ends BOOK I. (Folio), and now begins BOOK II. (Octavo). 
OCTAVOES . 1 These embrace the whales of middling magnitude, 
among which at present may be numbered : — I., the Grampus; II., the 
Black Fish ; III., the Narwhal ; IV., the Thrasher ; V., the Killer . 
BOOK II. (Octavo), Chapter I. (Grampus). — Though this fish, 
whose loud sonorous breathing, or rather blowing, has furnished a 
proverb to landsmen, is so well-known a denizen of the deep, yet is he 
not popularly classed among whales ; but possessing all the grand dis- 
tinctive features of the leviathan, most naturalists have recognised him 
for one. He is of moderate octavo size, varying from fifteen to twenty- 
five feet in length, and of corresponding dimensions round the waist. 
1 Why this book of whales is not denominated the Quarto is very plain. 
Because, while the whales of this order, though smaller than those of the 
former order, nevertheless retain a proportionate likeness to them in figure, 
yet the bookbinder’s Quarto volume in its diminished form does not preserve 
the shape of the Folio volume, but the Octavo volume does. 
