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Bethink
yourself
also
of
another
thing
.
When
two
large
,
loaded
Indian-men
chance
to
crowd
and
crush
towards
each
other
in
the
docks
,
what
do
the
sailors
do
?
They
do
not
suspend
between
them
,
at
the
point
of
coming
contact
,
any
merely
hard
substance
,
like
iron
or
wood
.
No
,
they
hold
there
a
large
,
round
wad
of
tow
and
cork
,
enveloped
in
the
thickest
and
toughest
of
ox-hide
.
That
bravely
and
uninjured
takes
the
jam
which
would
have
snapped
all
their
oaken
handspikes
and
iron
crow-bars
.
By
itself
this
sufficiently
illustrates
the
obvious
fact
I
drive
at
.
But
supplementary
to
this
,
it
has
hypothetically
occurred
to
me
,
that
as
ordinary
fish
possess
what
is
called
a
swimming
bladder
in
them
,
capable
,
at
will
,
of
distension
or
contraction
;
and
as
the
Sperm
Whale
,
as
far
as
I
know
,
has
no
such
provision
in
him
;
considering
,
too
,
the
otherwise
inexplicable
manner
in
which
he
now
depresses
his
head
altogether
beneath
the
surface
,
and
anon
swims
with
it
high
elevated
out
of
the
water
;
considering
the
unobstructed
elasticity
of
its
envelope
;
considering
the
unique
interior
of
his
head
;
it
has
hypothetically
occurred
to
me
,
I
say
,
that
those
mystical
lung-celled
honeycombs
there
may
possibly
have
some
hitherto
unknown
and
unsuspected
connexion
with
the
outer
air
,
so
as
to
be
susceptible
to
atmospheric
distension
and
contraction
.
If
this
be
so
,
fancy
the
irresistibleness
of
that
might
,
to
which
the
most
impalpable
and
destructive
of
all
elements
contributes
.
Now
,
mark
.
Unerringly
impelling
this
dead
,
impregnable
,
uninjurable
wall
,
and
this
most
buoyant
thing
within
;
there
swims
behind
it
all
a
mass
of
tremendous
life
,
only
to
be
adequately
estimated
as
piled
wood
is
--
by
the
cord
;
and
all
obedient
to
one
volition
,
as
the
smallest
insect
So
that
when
I
shall
hereafter
detail
to
you
all
the
specialities
and
concentrations
of
potency
everywhere
lurking
in
this
expansive
monster
;
when
I
shall
show
you
some
of
his
more
inconsiderable
braining
feats
;
I
trust
you
will
have
renounced
all
ignorant
incredulity
,
and
be
ready
to
abide
by
this
;
that
though
the
Sperm
Whale
stove
a
passage
through
the
Isthmus
of
Darien
,
and
mixed
the
Atlantic
with
the
Pacific
,
you
would
not
elevate
one
hair
of
your
eye-brow
.
For
unless
you
own
the
whale
,
you
are
but
a
provincial
and
sentimentalist
in
Truth
.
But
clear
Truth
is
a
thing
for
salamander
giants
only
to
encounter
;
how
small
the
chances
for
the
provincials
then
?
What
befell
the
weakling
youth
lifting
the
dread
goddess
's
veil
at
Lais
?
Now
comes
the
Baling
of
the
Case
.
But
to
comprehend
it
aright
,
you
must
know
something
of
the
curious
internal
structure
of
the
thing
operated
upon
.
Regarding
the
Sperm
Whale
's
head
as
a
solid
oblong
,
you
may
,
on
an
inclined
plane
,
sideways
divide
it
into
two
quoins
,
whereof
the
lower
is
the
bony
structure
,
forming
the
cranium
and
jaws
,
and
the
upper
an
unctuous
mass
wholly
free
from
bones
;
its
broad
forward
end
forming
the
expanded
vertical
apparent
forehead
of
the
whale
.
At
the
middle
of
the
forehead
horizontally
subdivide
this
upper
quoin
,
and
then
you
have
two
almost
equal
parts
,
which
before
were
naturally
divided
by
an
internal
wall
of
a
thick
tendinous
substance
.
The
lower
subdivided
part
,
called
the
junk
,
is
one
immense
honeycomb
of
oil
,
formed
by
the
crossing
and
recrossing
,
into
ten
thousand
infiltrated
cells
,
of
tough
elastic
white
fibres
throughout
its
whole
extent
.
The
upper
part
,
known
as
the
Case
,
may
be
regarded
as
the
great
Heidelburgh
Tun
of
the
Sperm
Whale
.
And
as
that
famous
great
tierce
is
mystically
carved
in
front
,
so
the
whale
's
vast
plaited
forehead
forms
innumerable
strange
devices
for
emblematical
adornment
of
his
wondrous
tun
.
Moreover
,
as
that
of
Heidelburgh
was
always
replenished
with
the
most
excellent
of
the
wines
of
the
Rhenish
valleys
,
so
the
tun
of
the
whale
contains
by
far
the
most
precious
of
all
his
oily
vintages
;
namely
,
the
highly-prized
spermaceti
,
in
its
absolutely
pure
,
limpid
,
and
odoriferous
state
.
Nor
is
this
precious
substance
found
unalloyed
in
any
other
part
of
the
creature
.
Though
in
life
it
remains
perfectly
fluid
,
yet
,
upon
exposure
to
the
air
,
after
death
,
it
soon
begins
to
concrete
;
sending
forth
beautiful
crystalline
shoots
,
as
when
the
first
thin
delicate
ice
is
just
forming
in
water
.
A
large
whale
's
case
generally
yields
about
five
hundred
gallons
of
sperm
,
though
from
unavoidable
circumstances
,
considerable
of
it
is
spilled
,
leaks
,
and
dribbles
away
,
or
is
otherwise
irrevocably
lost
in
the
ticklish
business
of
securing
what
you
can
.
I
know
not
with
what
fine
and
costly
material
the
Heidelburgh
Tun
was
coated
within
,
but
in
superlative
richness
that
coating
could
not
possibly
have
compared
with
the
silken
pearl-colored
membrane
,
like
the
lining
of
a
fine
pelisse
,
forming
the
inner
surface
of
the
Sperm
Whale
's
case
.
It
will
have
been
seen
that
the
Heidelburgh
Tun
of
the
Sperm
Whale
embraces
the
entire
length
of
the
entire
top
of
the
head
;
and
since
--
as
has
been
elsewhere
set
forth
--
the
head
embraces
one
third
of
the
whole
length
of
the
creature
,
then
setting
that
length
down
at
eighty
feet
for
a
good
sized
whale
,
you
have
more
than
twenty-six
feet
for
the
depth
of
the
tun
,
when
it
is
lengthwise
hoisted
up
and
down
against
a
ship
's
side
.
