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measuring one hundred feet; the food of this enormous
animal consists of fish, mollusca, and the smaller crustaces.

Physeter macrocephalus is the sperm or spermaceti whale ;
it is usually less than the Balenoptera, the head is very thick
and blunt; on the back is a large protuberance, beyond.
which the body gradually tapers to the “flukes” or tail.
On the right side of the nose and head is a large cavity,
which contains an oily fluid, of a yellowish colour, called
spermaceti ; this cavity sometimes contains ten large barrels
of this useful substance.

In the 1st chapter of Genesis it is said that “God created
great whales.” “Under the term ‘¢annim’ are compre-
hended all those mammiferous tenants of the ocean, which
belong to the order Cetacea. Of this order the sea-calf,
dolphin, porpoise, and whale are examples. Though they
inhabit the same medium, and resemble fishes in their
general form, yet they differ from them in many important
particulars. They respire by means of lungs, though des-
tined to spend their lives in the water, and are, therefore,
obliged from time to time to ascend to the surface to
inhale the atmospheric air; their blood is warm, and their
ears open outwards, though by small orifices*.’” In Lamen-

* Pictorial Bible.