carry dung, limestone, juniper-wood, and some other articles of the same nature in their boats, in order to terrify and prevent their too near
“The Spermacetti Whale found by the Nantuckois, is an active, fierce animal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen.”
“And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?”
“Spain—a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.”
“A tenth branch of the king’s ordinary revenue, said to be grounded on the consideration of his guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to royal fish, which are whale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coast, are the property of the king.”
“Soon to the sport of death the crews repair: Rodmond unerring o’er his head suspends The barbed steel, and every turn attends.”
“Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets blew self driven, To hang their momentary fire Around the vault of heaven.
“So fire with water to compare, The ocean serves on high, Up-spouted by a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy.”
“Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with immense velocity.”
“The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the waterworks at London Bridge, and the