Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

a guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change me a little.

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

Chapter 105

Does the whales magnitude diminish? Willy-Parisch.

In as much then as this Leviathan comes floundering down upon us from the headwaters of the eternities,

it may be fettly inquired whether in the long course of his generations, he is not degenerated

from the original bulk of his sires. But upon investigation we find that not only are the whales of the present day

superior in magnitude to those whose fossil remains are found in the tertiary system, embracing a distinct geological

period prior to man. But of the whales found in that tertiary system, those belonging to its ladder formations exceed in size,

those of its earlier ones. Of all the pre-adamite whales yet exhumed, by far the largest is the Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter,

and that was less than 70 feet in length in the skeleton. Whereas we have already seen that the tape measure gives 72 feet for the skeleton of a large sized modern whale.

And I have heard on Whaleman's authority that sperm whales have been captured near a hundred feet long at the time of capture.

But may it not be that while the whales of the present hour are an advance in magnitude upon those of all previous geological periods,

may it not be that since Adam's time they have degenerated?

Assurantly, we must conclude so if we are to credit the accounts of such gentleman as Pliny and the ancient naturalist generally.

For Pliny tells us of whales that embraced acres of living bulk, an all-drow vandus of others which measured 800 feet in length,

rope walks and tems tunnels of whales, and even the days of banks and solender, cooks naturalists,

we find a Danish member of the Academy of Sciences setting down certain Iceland whales at 120 yards, that is 360 feet.

And Laisa Pet, the French naturalist, in his elaborate history of whales in the very beginning of his work, page 3,

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