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THE WHITE WHALE 
Created hugest that swim the ocean stream.” 
Paradise Lost. 
“There Leviathan, 
Hugest of living creatures, in the deep 
Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, 
And seems a moving land; and at his gills 
Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea.” 
Ibid. 
“The mighty whales which swim in a sea of water, and have a sea of oil 
swimming in them.” Fuller’s Profane and Holy State. 
“So close behind some promontory lie 
The huge Leviathans to attend their prey, 
And give no chance, but swallow in the fry, 
Which through their gaping jaws mistake the way.” 
Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis. 
“While the whale is floating at the stern of the ship, they cut off his 
head, and tow it with a boat as near the shore as it will come; but it will 
be aground in twelve or thirteen feet water.” 
Thomas Edge’s Ten Voyages to Spitzbergen in Purclias. 
“In their way they saw many whales sporting in the ocean, and in 
wantonness fuzzing up the water through their pipes and vents, which na- 
ture has placed on their shoulders.” 
Sir T. Herbert’s Voyages to Asia and Africa. (Harris Coll.) 
“Here they saw such large troops of whales, that they were forced to 
proceed with a great deal of caution for fear they should run their ship 
upon them.” Schouten’s Sixth Circumnavigation. 
“We set sail from the Elbe, wind N. E. in the ship called The Jonas-in- 
the-Whale. . . . 
Some say the whale can’t open his mouth, but that is a fable. . . . 
They frequently climb up the masts to see whether they can see a whale, 
for the first discoverer has a ducat for his pains. . . . 
I was told of a whale taken near Shetland, that had above a barrel of 
herrings in his belly. . . . 
