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🗓️ 29 April 2022
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0:00.0 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time. |
0:10.0 | Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit |
0:15.0 | because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top |
0:20.0 | and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch. |
0:25.0 | Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
0:32.0 | Chapter 103. Measurement of the Whale Skeleton. |
0:38.0 | In the first place I wishfully before you a particular plane statement, |
0:42.0 | touching the living bulk of this Leviathan, |
0:45.0 | who skeleton we are briefly to exhibit. Such a statement may prove useful here. |
0:51.0 | According to a careful calculation I've made, in which I partly base upon Captain Scorsby's estimate |
0:57.0 | of 70 tons for the largest sized Greenland Whale of 60 feet in length, |
1:02.0 | according to my careful calculation I say, |
1:05.0 | a sperm whale of the largest magnitude between 85 and 90 feet in length |
1:10.0 | and something less than 40 feet in its fullest circumference. |
1:14.0 | Such a whale will weigh at least 90 tons |
1:18.0 | so that reckoning 13 men to a ton, |
1:21.0 | he would considerably outweigh the combined population of a whole village of 1,100 inhabitants. |
1:30.0 | Think you not then that brains like Dio cattle should be put to the Leviathan |
1:36.0 | to make him at all budged any Landsman's imagination. |
1:41.0 | Having already in various ways put before you his skull, spout hole, jaw, teeth, tail, forehead, fins, and divers other parts, |
1:50.0 | I shall now simply point out what is most interesting in the general bulk of his unobstructed bones. |
1:57.0 | But as the colossal skull embraces so very large a proportion of the entire exotent of the skeleton, |
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