Show the dimensions of a wb a le captain davis one of the most 17 fi alow of the old time american whal ers gives these as tl e d mansions men sious of a right whale yield ng barrels of oil the blubber of such a whale he says is half a yard thick and if put together in a strip would be sixty six feet long and twenty beven feet wide the upper jaw would make a room nine feet high and twenty feet long the lips and throat of the b brute rute with the supporting jann bones will weigh as much as twenty five oxen of 1000 pounds each the tongue al alone one will often weigh as much as ten oxen the spread of the I 1 ps is thirty feet he ile can take jn in fifty barrell b of water at each mouthful IN hen feeding i I 1 whale is b g as that sifts a track of sea i I 1 quarter of a in ie le long and fifteen feet wide in one iun tl TI en ell he raises his head forces his mighty tongue into th cavity of his whalebone sieve and drives the out with immense foice the tail tall of a right while whale is twenty flye five feet broad and six feet deep ind the point of junction with the body is about four feet in d amedei in it lie tendons as big mound as a man s leg the greatest glea test blood vessels aie ale icie moie than a I 1 foot in diameter the blood that is force I 1 thi ough them by a heart as big as a hogshead inns in to rients heated to degrees the desp canal is more than a foot in d ameter the rush of air through it is as noisy as the exhaust p pe of a thousand horse power steam engine and when the fatal wound is given a cataract of clotted blood is spattered over the hunters so hot and nauseating that the crew of a whale boat often becomes helplessly sick washington star |