The Natural History of the Sperm Whale ...: To which is Added, a Sketch of a South-Sea Whaling Voyage ...J. Van Voorst, 1839 - 393 pagina's |
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The Natural History of the Sperm Whale: Its Anatomy and Physiology, Food ... Thomas Beale Fragmentweergave - 1973 |
The Natural History of the Sperm Whale: To which is Added, a Sketch of a ... Thomas Beale Fragmentweergave - 1973 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 141 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Pagina 140 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Pagina 140 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Pagina 140 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration.
Pagina 68 - I soon gave it a powerful jerk, wishing to disengage it from the rocks to which it clung so forcibly by its suckers...
Pagina 141 - ... their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We...
Pagina 104 - Thus the heart and aorta of the spermaceti whale appeared prodigious, being too large to be contained in a wide tub, the aorta measuring a foot in diameter. When we consider these as applied to the circulation, and figure to ourselves that probably ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out at one stroke, and moved with an immense velocity through a tube of a foot in diameter, the whole idea fills the mind with wonder.
Pagina 64 - Anatomy, p. 529, treating of cephalopoda, in an admirable paper by Mr. Owen, it states, that " the natives of the Polynesian Islands, who dive for shell-fish, have a well-founded dread and abhorrence of these formidable cephalopods, and one cannot feel surprised that their fears should have perhaps exaggerated their dimensions and destructive attributes.
Pagina 170 - ... while the boats had been seen more than fifty times by anxious spirits, who had strained their eyes through the gloom until fancy robbed them of their true speculation and left her phantasmagoria in exchange. There were not many on...
Pagina 67 - It was creeping on its eight legs, which, from their soft and flexible nature, bent considerably under the weight of its body, so that it was lifted by the efforts of its tentacula only, a small distance from the rocks.