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Show The Illinrnslnna of a Wlinle. Captain DnIs, one of the most famous fa-mous of the old-time American whalers, whal-ers, ghes theve as the dimensions of a right whale folding 'JoO bairels of oil: "The blubber of such n -whale," he saj-s, "Is half a jaid thick, and If put together In n strip would be sjxtj--slx feet long and twenty-set en feet wide. The tipper Jnw would innke n loom nine feet high nnd twenty feet long. The lips and thront of the brute, 'with the supporting Jnwbones, will weigh ns much as twenty-Ihe oxen of 1000 pounds encli. The tongue nlone will often weigh ns much ns ten oxen. "Tho spiend of the lips is thirty feet. Ho can take In fifty bairels of water n cicli mouthful. When feeding n -wlinlo ns big ns thnt fclfts a tiack of sen n quaitcr of n mile long and fifteen feet wide iu one inn. Then he raises his head, forces his mighty tongue Into the cavity of his whalebone slee and drives the water out with Immense focco. "The tall of it light whale Is twenty-five twenty-five feet bioad and six feet deep, nnd tho point of Junction with the body is nbout four feet In dlnmeter. In it He tendons as big aiound ns a mnn's leg. "The gieatest blood vessels are more than n foot In diameter. Tho blood that Is forced through them by n henrt ns big ns n hogshend runs lu ton cuts boated to 101 degrees. "Tho icspliatory canal Is more thnn n foot lu dlnmeter. The rush of nlr through It is ns noisy ns the exhaust pipo of a thousand horse power strnm engine, nnd when the fntnl wound Is given n cntaiact of clotted blood Is spattcted over tho hunters, so hot and nauseating that the ciuw of n -whale-boat often becomes helplessly sick." Wnsblngton Stnr. |