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(_somewhere_.)\r\n\r\n  “A tenth branch of the king’s ordinary revenue, said to be grounded\r\n  on the consideration of his guarding and protecting the seas from\r\n  pirates and robbers, is the right to _royal_ fish, which are whale\r\n  and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the\r\n  coast, are the property of the king.” —_Blackstone_.\r\n\r\n\r\n  “Soon to the sport of death the crews repair: Rodmond unerring o’er\r\n  his head suspends The barbed steel, and every turn attends.”\r\n  —_Falconer’s Shipwreck_.\r\n\r\n  “Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets blew self\r\n  driven, To hang their momentary fire Around the vault of heaven.\r\n\r\n  “So fire with water to compare, The ocean serves on high, Up-spouted\r\n  by a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy.” —_Cowper, on the Queen’s\r\n  Visit to London_.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n  “Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a\r\n  stroke, with immense velocity.” —_John Hunter’s account of the\r\n  dissection of a whale_. (_A small sized one_.)\r\n\r\n  “The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the\r\n  water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage\r\n  through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood\r\n  gushing from the whale’s heart.” —_Paley’s Theology_.\r\n\r\n  “The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind feet.” —_Baron\r\n  Cuvier_.\r\n\r\n  “In 40 degrees south, we saw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take any\r\n  till the first of May, the sea being then covered with them.”\r\n  —_Colnett’s Voyage for the Purpose of Extending the Spermaceti Whale\r\n  Fishery_.\r\n\r\n\r\n  “In the free element beneath me swam, Floundered and dived, in play,\r\n  in chace, in battle, Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; Which\r\n  language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread\r\n  Leviathan To insect millions peopling every wave: Gather’d in shoals\r\n  immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instincts through\r\n  that waste And trackless region, though on every side Assaulted by\r\n  voracious enemies, Whales, sharks, and monsters, arm’d in front or\r\n  jaw, With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs.”\r\n  —_Montgomery’s World before the Flood_.\r\n\r\n  “Io!  Paean!  Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier\r\n  whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not a fatter fish than he,\r\n  Flounders round the Polar Sea.” —_Charles Lamb’s Triumph of the\r\n  Whale_.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n  “In the year 1690 some persons were on a high hill observing the\r\n  whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed:\r\n  there—pointing to the sea—is a green pasture where our children’s\r\n  grand-children will go for bread.” —_Obed Macy’s History of\r\n  Nantucket_.\r\n\r\n  “I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a gateway in the\r\n  form of a Gothic Arch, by setting up a whale’s jaw bones.”\r\n  —_Hawthorne’s Twice Told Tales_.\r\n\r\n  “She came to bespeak a monument for her first love, who had been\r\n  killed by a whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years\r\n  ago.” —_Ibid_.\r\n\r\n  “No, Sir, ’tis a Right Whale,” answered Tom; “I saw his sprout; he\r\n  threw up a pair of as pretty rainbows as a Christian would wish to\r\n  look at. He’s a raal oil-butt, that fellow!” —_Cooper’s Pilot_.\r\n\r\n  “The papers were brought in, and we saw in the Berlin Gazette that\r\n  whales had been introduced on the stage there.” —_Eckermann’s\r\n  Conversations with Goethe_.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFNR82YYCTKCKZWXDPCZ5WQE","peer_label":"Extracts","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFNR82YYCTKCKZWXDPCZ5WQE","peer_label":"Extracts","peer_type":"section","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":"01KFNR86TJQHZA9ZBQPXC63G1P","peer_label":"Chunk 4","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"},{"peer":"01KFNR86ZGV5CFK3F4XNFD9T83","peer_label":"Chunk 2","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-23T15:41:02.539Z","ts":"2026-01-23T15:41:15.106Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}