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Chapter 32. Cetology Part 1. Already, we are boldly launched upon the deep, but soon

we shall be lost in its unshored, harbulous amensities. Air that come to pass. Air the

P-quads Weedy Hall roll side by side with the barnacled holes of the Leviathan. At the

outset, it is but well to attend to a matter almost indispensable to a thorough, appreciative

understanding of the more special Leviathanic revelations and illusions of all sorts which

are to follow. It is some systemized exhibition of the whale that I would now thing put before

you. Yet is it no easy task? The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less

is here to say. Listen to what the best and latest authorities have laid down. No branch

of zoology is so much involved as that which is entitled Cetology, Suscapt in Scorsby,

AD 1820. It is not my intention, word in my power, to enter into the inquiry as to the

true method of dividing the Satisia into groups and families. At her confusion exists among

the historians of this animal, sperm whale, says surgeon Biel, AD 1839. Unfitness to pursue

our research in the unfathomable waters, impenetrable veil covering our knowledge of the Satisia,

a field strewn with thorns. All these incomplete indications but serve to torture us naturalists.

Speak of the whale, the great cuvierre and John Hunter and Lesson, those lights of zoology

and anatomy. Nevertheless, though of real knowledge there be little, yet of books there

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