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Nor
is
it
at
all
prudent
for
the
hunter
to
be
over
curious
touching
the
precise
nature
of
the
whale
spout
.
It
will
not
do
for
him
to
be
peering
into
it
,
and
putting
his
face
in
it
.
You
can
not
go
with
your
pitcher
to
this
fountain
and
fill
it
,
and
bring
it
away
.
For
even
when
coming
into
slight
contact
with
the
outer
,
vapory
shreds
of
the
jet
,
which
will
often
happen
,
your
skin
will
feverishly
smart
,
from
the
acridness
of
the
thing
so
touching
it
.
And
I
know
one
,
who
coming
into
still
closer
contact
with
the
spout
,
whether
with
some
scientific
object
in
view
,
or
otherwise
,
I
can
not
say
,
the
skin
peeled
off
from
his
cheek
and
arm
.
Wherefore
,
among
whalemen
,
the
spout
is
deemed
poisonous
;
they
try
to
evade
it
.
Another
thing
;
I
have
heard
it
said
,
and
I
do
not
much
doubt
it
,
that
if
the
jet
is
fairly
spouted
into
your
eyes
,
it
will
blind
you
.
The
wisest
thing
the
investigator
can
do
then
,
it
seems
to
me
,
is
to
let
this
deadly
spout
alone
.
Still
,
we
can
hypothesize
,
even
if
we
can
not
prove
and
establish
.
My
hypothesis
is
this
:
that
the
spout
is
nothing
but
mist
.
And
besides
other
reasons
,
to
this
conclusion
I
am
impelled
,
by
considerations
touching
the
great
inherent
dignity
and
sublimity
of
the
Sperm
Whale
;
I
account
him
no
common
,
shallow
being
,
inasmuch
as
it
is
an
undisputed
fact
that
he
is
never
found
on
soundings
,
or
near
shores
;
all
other
whales
sometimes
are
.
He
is
both
ponderous
and
profound
.
And
I
am
convinced
that
from
the
heads
of
all
ponderous
profound
beings
,
such
as
Plato
,
Pyrrho
,
the
Devil
,
Jupiter
,
Dante
,
and
so
on
,
there
always
goes
up
a
certain
semi-visible
steam
,
while
in
the
act
of
thinking
deep
thoughts
.
While
composing
a
little
treatise
on
Eternity
,
I
had
the
curiosity
to
place
a
mirror
before
me
;
and
ere
long
saw
reflected
there
,
a
curious
involved
worming
and
undulation
in
the
atmosphere
over
my
head
The
invariable
moisture
of
my
hair
,
while
plunged
in
deep
thought
,
after
six
cups
of
hot
tea
in
my
thin
shingled
attic
,
of
an
August
noon
;
this
seems
an
additional
argument
for
the
above
supposition
.
And
how
nobly
it
raises
our
conceit
of
the
mighty
,
misty
monster
,
to
behold
him
solemnly
sailing
through
a
calm
tropical
sea
;
his
vast
,
mild
head
overhung
by
a
canopy
of
vapor
,
engendered
by
his
incommunicable
contemplations
,
and
that
vapor
--
as
you
will
sometimes
see
it
--
glorified
by
a
rainbow
,
as
if
Heaven
itself
had
put
its
seal
upon
his
thoughts
.
For
d'ye
see
,
rainbows
do
not
visit
the
clear
air
;
they
only
irradiate
vapor
.
And
so
,
through
all
the
thick
mists
of
the
dim
doubts
in
my
mind
,
divine
intuitions
now
and
then
shoot
,
enkindling
my
fog
with
a
heavenly
ray
.
And
for
this
I
thank
God
;
for
all
have
doubts
;
many
deny
;
but
doubts
or
denials
,
few
along
with
them
,
have
intuitions
.
Doubts
of
all
things
earthly
,
and
intuitions
of
some
things
heavenly
;
this
combination
makes
neither
believer
nor
infidel
,
but
makes
a
man
who
regards
them
both
with
equal
eye
.
Other
poets
have
warbled
the
praises
of
the
soft
eye
of
the
antelope
,
and
the
lovely
plumage
of
the
bird
that
never
alights
;
less
celestial
,
I
celebrate
a
tail
.
Reckoning
the
largest
sized
Sperm
Whale
's
tail
to
begin
at
that
point
of
the
trunk
where
it
tapers
to
about
the
girth
of
a
man
,
it
comprises
upon
its
upper
surface
alone
,
an
area
of
at
least
fifty
square
feet
.
The
compact
round
body
of
its
root
expands
into
two
broad
,
firm
,
flat
palms
or
flukes
,
gradually
shoaling
away
to
less
than
an
inch
in
thickness
.
At
the
crotch
or
junction
,
these
flukes
slightly
overlap
,
then
sideways
recede
from
each
other
like
wings
,
leaving
a
wide
vacancy
between
.
In
no
living
thing
are
the
lines
of
beauty
more
exquisitely
defined
than
in
the
crescentic
borders
of
these
flukes
.
At
its
utmost
expansion
in
the
full
grown
whale
,
the
tail
will
considerably
exceed
twenty
feet
across
.
The
entire
member
seems
a
dense
webbed
bed
of
welded
sinews
;
but
cut
into
it
,
and
you
find
that
three
distinct
strata
compose
it
:
--
upper
,
middle
,
and
lower
.
The
fibres
in
the
upper
and
lower
layers
,
are
long
and
horizontal
;
those
of
the
middle
one
,
very
short
,
and
running
crosswise
between
the
outside
layers
.
This
triune
structure
,
as
much
as
anything
else
,
imparts
power
to
the
tail
.
To
the
student
of
old
Roman
walls
,
the
middle
layer
will
furnish
a
curious
parallel
to
the
thin
course
of
tiles
always
alternating
with
the
stone
in
those
wonderful
relics
of
the
antique
,
and
which
undoubtedly
contribute
so
much
to
the
great
strength
of
the
masonry
.
But
as
if
this
vast
local
power
in
the
tendinous
tail
were
not
enough
,
the
whole
bulk
of
the
leviathan
is
knit
over
with
a
warp
and
woof
of
muscular
fibres
and
filaments
,
which
passing
on
either
side
the
loins
and
running
down
into
the
flukes
,
insensibly
blend
with
them
,
and
largely
contribute
to
their
might
;
so
that
in
the
tail
the
confluent
measureless
force
of
the
whole
whale
seems
concentrated
to
a
point
.
Could
annihilation
occur
to
matter
,
this
were
the
thing
to
do
it
.
Nor
does
this
--
its
amazing
strength
,
at
all
tend
to
cripple
the
graceful
flexion
of
its
motions
;
where
infantileness
of
ease
undulates
through
a
Titanism
of
power
.
On
the
contrary
,
those
motions
derive
their
most
appalling
beauty
from
it
.
Real
strength
never
impairs
beauty
or
harmony
,
but
it
often
bestows
it
;
and
in
everything
imposingly
beautiful
,
strength
has
much
to
do
with
the
magic
.
Take
away
the
tied
tendons
that
all
over
seem
bursting
from
the
marble
in
the
carved
Hercules
,
and
its
charm
would
be
gone
.
As
devout
Eckerman
lifted
the
linen
sheet
from
the
naked
corpse
of
Goethe
,
he
was
overwhelmed
with
the
massive
chest
of
the
man
,
that
seemed
as
a
Roman
triumphal
arch
.
When
Angelo
paints
even
God
the
Father
in
human
form
,
mark
what
robustness
is
there
.
