II 
Mctii stands at the head of the list of* organized beings in our 
systems of classification. The Whale is ^jr the largest mammal; 
but, trough the largest, they are about tha lowest in their organ 
ization and stand near the bottom of the list of mammalia, with 
Man occupying the highest place at the other end of the scale, 
rut when the Whale swallows Jonah, extremes meet, and opposite 
ends of our system unite to form a circle, with its beginning and 
end everywhere or nowhere to our hopeless confusion. I must 
x espcctfully decline to identify such complex 
all 
others, 
specimens. though 
excepting the aforesaid house rats and house 
will be welcomed with gratitude. 
s 
JZ (> 
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