Ere this, you must have plainly seen the truth of what I started with—that the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely different heads To sum up, then: in the Right Whale’s there is no great well of sperm; no ivory teeth at all; no long, slender mandible of a lower jaw, like the Sperm Whale’s Nor in the Sperm Whale are there any of those blinds of bone; no huge lower lip; and scarcely anything of a tongue Again, the Right Whale has two external spout-holes, the Sperm Whale only one Look your last, now, on these venerable hooded heads, while they yet lie together; for one will soon sink, unrecorded, in the sea; the other will not be very long in following Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale’s
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