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To hang their momentary fire 
Around the vault of heaven. 
“So fire with water to compare, 
The ocean serves on high, 
Up-spouted by a whale in air, 
To express unwieldy joy.” 
Cowper, On the Queen's Visit to London. 
“Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, 
with immense velocity.” 
John Hunter’s Account of the Dissection 
of a Whale. (A small-sized one.) 
“The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the 
water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage 
through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing 
from the whale’s heart.” Paley’s Theology. 
“The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind feet.” 
Baron Cuvier. 
“In 40 degrees south, we saw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take 
any till the first of May, the sea being then covered with them.” 
Colnett’s Voyage for the purpose of 
Extending the Spermacetti Whale Fishery. 
“In the free element beneath me swam, 
Floundered and dived, in play, in chase, in battle, 
Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; 
Which language cannot paint, and mariner 
Had never seen; from dread Leviathan 
To insect millions peopling every wave: 
Gather’d in shoals immense, like floating islands, 
Led by mysterious instincts through that waste 
And trackless region, though on every side 
Assaulted by voracious enemies, 
Whales, sharks, and monsters, arm’d in front or jaw 
With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs.” 
Montgomery’s World before the Flood. 
