Leviathan or The Whale by Philip Hoare

Author:Philip Hoare [Hoare, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

IX

The Correct Use of Whales

There is a Leviathanic Museum, they tell me, in Hull, England, one of the whaling ports of that country, where they have some fine specimens of fin-backs and other whales…Moreover, at a place in Yorkshire, England, Burton Constable by name, a certain Sir Clifford Constable has in his possession the skeleton of a Sperm Whale…articulated throughout; so that, like a great chest of drawers you can open and shut him, in all his bony cavities–spread out his ribs like a gigantic fan–and swing all day upon his lower jaw.

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