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In
both
cases
,
the
stranded
whales
to
which
these
two
skeletons
belonged
,
were
originally
claimed
by
their
proprietors
upon
similar
grounds
.
King
Tranquo
seizing
his
because
he
wanted
it
;
and
Sir
Clifford
,
because
he
was
lord
of
the
seignories
of
those
parts
.
Sir
Clifford
's
whale
has
been
articulated
throughout
;
so
that
,
like
a
great
chest
of
drawers
,
you
can
open
and
shut
him
,
in
all
his
bony
cavities
--
spread
out
his
ribs
like
a
gigantic
fan
--
and
swing
all
day
upon
his
lower
jaw
.
Locks
are
to
be
put
upon
some
of
his
trap-doors
and
shutters
;
and
a
footman
will
show
round
future
visitors
with
a
bunch
of
keys
at
his
side
.
Sir
Clifford
thinks
of
charging
twopence
for
a
peep
at
the
whispering
gallery
in
the
spinal
column
;
threepence
to
hear
the
echo
in
the
hollow
of
his
cerebellum
;
and
sixpence
for
the
unrivalled
view
from
his
forehead
.
The
skeleton
dimensions
I
shall
now
proceed
to
set
down
are
copied
verbatim
from
my
right
arm
,
where
I
had
them
tattooed
;
as
in
my
wild
wanderings
at
that
period
,
there
was
no
other
secure
way
of
preserving
such
valuable
statistics
But
as
I
was
crowded
for
space
,
and
wished
the
other
parts
of
my
body
to
remain
a
blank
page
for
a
poem
I
was
then
composing
--
at
least
,
what
untattooed
parts
might
remain
--
I
did
not
trouble
myself
with
the
odd
inches
;
nor
,
indeed
,
should
inches
at
all
enter
into
a
congenial
admeasurement
of
the
whale
.
In
the
first
place
,
I
wish
to
lay
before
you
a
particular
,
plain
statement
,
touching
the
living
bulk
of
this
leviathan
,
whose
skeleton
we
are
briefly
to
exhibit
.
Such
a
statement
may
prove
useful
here
.
According
to
a
careful
calculation
I
have
made
,
and
which
I
partly
base
upon
Captain
Scoresby
's
estimate
,
of
seventy
tons
for
the
largest
sized
Greenland
whale
of
sixty
feet
in
length
;
according
to
my
careful
calculation
,
I
say
,
a
Sperm
Whale
of
the
largest
magnitude
,
between
eighty-five
and
ninety
feet
in
length
,
and
something
less
than
forty
feet
in
its
fullest
circumference
,
such
a
whale
will
weigh
at
least
ninety
tons
;
so
that
,
reckoning
thirteen
men
to
a
ton
,
he
would
considerably
outweigh
the
combined
population
of
a
whole
village
of
one
thousand
one
hundred
inhabitants
.
Think
you
not
then
that
brains
,
like
yoked
cattle
,
should
be
put
to
this
leviathan
,
to
make
him
at
all
budge
to
any
landsman
's
imagination
?
Having
already
in
various
ways
put
before
you
his
skull
,
spout-hole
,
jaw
,
teeth
,
tail
,
forehead
,
fins
,
and
divers
other
parts
,
I
shall
now
simply
point
out
what
is
most
interesting
in
the
general
bulk
of
his
unobstructed
bones
.
But
as
the
colossal
skull
embraces
so
very
large
a
proportion
of
the
entire
extent
of
the
skeleton
;
as
it
is
by
far
the
most
complicated
part
;
and
as
nothing
is
to
be
repeated
concerning
it
in
this
chapter
,
you
must
not
fail
to
carry
it
in
your
mind
,
or
under
your
arm
,
as
we
proceed
,
otherwise
you
will
not
gain
a
complete
notion
of
the
general
structure
we
are
about
to
view
.
In
length
,
the
Sperm
Whale
's
skeleton
at
Tranque
measured
seventy-two
feet
:
so
that
when
fully
invested
and
extended
in
life
,
he
must
have
been
ninety
feet
long
;
for
in
the
whale
,
the
skeleton
loses
about
one
fifth
in
length
compared
with
the
living
body
.
Of
this
seventy-two
feet
,
his
skull
and
jaw
comprised
some
twenty
feet
,
leaving
some
fifty
feet
of
plain
backbone
.
Attached
to
this
back-bone
,
for
something
less
than
a
third
of
its
length
,
was
the
mighty
circular
basket
of
ribs
which
once
enclosed
his
vitals
.
To
me
this
vast
ivory-ribbed
chest
,
with
the
long
,
unrelieved
spine
,
extending
far
away
from
it
in
a
straight
line
,
not
a
little
resembled
the
hull
of
a
great
ship
new-laid
upon
the
stocks
,
when
only
some
twenty
of
her
naked
bow-ribs
are
inserted
,
and
the
keel
is
otherwise
,
for
the
time
,
but
a
long
,
disconnected
timber
.
The
ribs
were
ten
on
a
side
.
The
first
,
to
begin
from
the
neck
,
was
nearly
six
feet
long
;
the
second
,
third
,
and
fourth
were
each
successively
longer
,
till
you
came
to
the
climax
of
the
fifth
,
or
one
of
the
middle
ribs
,
which
measured
eight
feet
and
some
inches
.
From
that
part
,
the
remaining
ribs
diminished
,
till
the
tenth
and
last
only
spanned
five
feet
and
some
inches
.
In
general
thickness
,
they
all
bore
a
seemly
correspondence
to
their
length
.
The
middle
ribs
were
the
most
arched
.
In
some
of
the
Arsacides
they
are
used
for
beams
whereon
to
lay
footpath
bridges
over
small
streams
.
