{"id":"01KFNR86VKF927P79B575NG5F9","cid":"bafkreiesft4n3uq4fud6vrv4oyveiqehyzthupbol7tapblq2v6rtp6chy","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5792,"extracted_at":"2026-01-23T15:41:01.929Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KFNR0Z394A878Y5AQ63MQEM2","start_line":5729,"text":"I. THE FOLIO WHALE; II. the OCTAVO WHALE; III. the DUODECIMO WHALE.\r\n\r\nAs the type of the FOLIO I present the _Sperm Whale_; of the OCTAVO,\r\nthe _Grampus_; of the DUODECIMO, the _Porpoise_.\r\n\r\nFOLIOS. Among these I here include the following chapters:—I. The\r\n_Sperm Whale_; II. the _Right Whale_; III. the _Fin-Back Whale_; IV.\r\nthe _Hump-backed Whale_; V. the _Razor Back Whale_; VI. the _Sulphur\r\nBottom Whale_.\r\n\r\nBOOK I. (_Folio_), CHAPTER I. (_Sperm Whale_).—This whale, among the\r\nEnglish of old vaguely known as the Trumpa whale, and the Physeter\r\nwhale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the\r\nFrench, and the Pottsfich of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the\r\nLong Words. He is, without doubt, the largest inhabitant of the globe;\r\nthe most formidable of all whales to encounter; the most majestic in\r\naspect; and lastly, by far the most valuable in commerce; he being the\r\nonly creature from which that valuable substance, spermaceti, is\r\nobtained. All his peculiarities will, in many other places, be enlarged\r\nupon. It is chiefly with his name that I now have to do. Philologically\r\nconsidered, it is absurd. Some centuries ago, when the Sperm whale was\r\nalmost wholly unknown in his own proper individuality, and when his oil\r\nwas only accidentally obtained from the stranded fish; in those days\r\nspermaceti, it would seem, was popularly supposed to be derived from a\r\ncreature identical with the one then known in England as the Greenland\r\nor Right Whale. It was the idea also, that this same spermaceti was\r\nthat quickening humor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable\r\nof the word literally expresses. In those times, also, spermaceti was\r\nexceedingly scarce, not being used for light, but only as an ointment\r\nand medicament. It was only to be had from the druggists as you\r\nnowadays buy an ounce of rhubarb. When, as I opine, in the course of\r\ntime, the true nature of spermaceti became known, its original name was\r\nstill retained by the dealers; no doubt to enhance its value by a\r\nnotion so strangely significant of its scarcity. And so the appellation\r\nmust at last have come to be bestowed upon the whale from which this\r\nspermaceti was really derived.\r\n\r\nBOOK I. (_Folio_), CHAPTER II. (_Right Whale_).—In one respect this is\r\nthe most venerable of the leviathans, being the one first regularly\r\nhunted by man. It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or\r\nbaleen; and the oil specially known as “whale oil,” an inferior article\r\nin commerce. Among the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by\r\nall the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black\r\nWhale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right Whale. There is a\r\ndeal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus\r\nmultitudinously baptised. What then is the whale, which I include in\r\nthe second species of my Folios? It is the Great Mysticetus of the\r\nEnglish naturalists; the Greenland Whale of the English whalemen; the\r\nBaleine Ordinaire of the French whalemen; the Growlands Walfish of the\r\nSwedes. It is the whale which for more than two centuries past has been\r\nhunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale\r\nwhich the American fishermen have long pursued in the Indian ocean, on\r\nthe Brazil Banks, on the Nor’ West Coast, and various other parts of\r\nthe world, designated by them Right Whale Cruising Grounds.\r\n\r\nSome pretend to see a difference between the Greenland whale of the\r\nEnglish and the right whale of the Americans. But they precisely agree\r\nin all their grand features; nor has there yet been presented a single\r\ndeterminate fact upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by\r\nendless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that\r\nsome departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.\r\nThe right whale will be elsewhere treated of at some length, with\r\nreference to elucidating the sperm whale.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFNR84A9QXWBKCWCK87YB232","peer_label":"32","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFNR84A9QXWBKCWCK87YB232","peer_label":"32","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KFNR81RMVAX2BBMMBW51V97D","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"novel","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KFNR0H0Q791Y1SMZWEQ09FGV","peer_label":"Moby Dick","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KFNR871AHXMFKFNQHDFRXZFE","peer_label":"Chunk 4","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"},{"peer":"01KFNR86Y219TCDQ1Q01EBRKET","peer_label":"Chunk 2","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-23T15:41:02.312Z","ts":"2026-01-23T15:41:15.081Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}