id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-107 chapter-107 .txt text/plain 1587 47 60 DOES THE WHALE'S MAGNITUDE DIMINISH?--WILL HE PERISH? present day superior in magnitude to those whose fossil remains are prior to man), but of the whales found in that Tertiary system, those large sized modern whale. that Sperm Whales have been captured near a hundred feet long at the But may it not be, that while the whales of the present hour are an Pliny tells us of whales that embraced acres of living bulk, and No. The whale of to-day is look-outs at the mast-heads of the whale-ships, now penetrating even at last be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily forbids so inglorious Forty men in one ship hunting the Sperm Whale But though for some time past a number of these whales, not less than great numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since ./cache/chapter-107.txt ./txt/chapter-107.txt