FISHES. 
I. CETACEA, or Sea Mammalia. 
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THE WHITE WHALE. (Beluga leucas.) 
Nature's strange work, vast Whales of different form, 
Toss up the troubled flood, and are themselves a storm ; 
Uncouth the sight, when they in dreadful play, 
Discharge their nostrils and refund a sea ; 
Or angry lash the foam with hideous sound, 
And scatter all the watery dust around. 
Fearless, the fierce destructive monsters roll, 
Ingulf the fish, and drive the flying shoal, 
In deepest seas these living isles appear, 
And deepest seas can scarce their pressure bear ; 
Their bulk would more than fill the shelvy strait, 
And fathom'd depths would yield beneath their weight. 
THE Whale is not properly a fish; since, though it lives 
in the sea, and has fins and a tail instead of legs and feet, 
