Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they’ve what the proprietors call “the only good specimen of a Greenland or River Whale in the United States.” Moreover, at a spot in Yorkshire, England, Burton Constable by title, a certain Sir Clifford Constable has in his possession the skeleton of a Sperm Whale, but of moderate dimension, by no technique of the full-grown magnitude of my friend King Tranquo’s. In each instances, the stranded whales to which these two skeletons belonged, had been initially claimed by their proprietors upon similar grounds. But no extra; sufficient has been mentioned to show that the outdated Dutch whalers of two or three centuries ago have been excessive livers; and that the English whalers haven’t uncared for so excellent an instance. Locks are to be put upon some of his lure-doorways and shutters; and a footman will present round future visitors with a bunch of keys at his facet. The purpose is that, if Susie is decided to play the field, she will have to manage it carefully. Sir Clifford’s whale has been articulated all through; so that, like an awesome chest of drawers, you may open and shut him, in all his bony cavities-unfold out his ribs like a gigantic fan-and swing all day upon his lower jaw.
The ribs had been hung with trophies; the vertebræ have been carved with Arsacidean annals, in strange hieroglyphics; within the skull, the priests kept up an unextinguished aromatic flame, so that the mystic head once more sent forth its vapory spout; whereas, suspended from a bough, the terrific decrease jaw vibrated over all the devotees, like the hair-hung sword that so affrighted Damocles. Chief amongst these latter was an important Sperm Whale, which, after an unusually lengthy raging gale, had been discovered dead and stranded, with his head towards a cocoa-nut tree, whose plumage-like, tufted droopings seemed his verdant jet. Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I’ve mainly dwelt upon the marvels of his outer facet; or separately and in detail upon some few interior structural features. I confess, that since Jonah, few whalemen have penetrated very far beneath the pores and skin of the grownup whale; nevertheless, I have been blessed with an opportunity to dissect him in miniature. But this was very far North, be it remembered, the place beer agrees effectively with the constitution; upon the Equator, in our southern fishery, beer can be apt to make the harpooneer sleepy at the mast-head and boozy in his boat; and grievous loss would possibly ensue to Nantucket and New Bedford.
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