The Most Marvelous of All Cetacean Relics

Among the more curious of such remains is part of a skull which, in the year 17 79, was disinterred in the rue dauphin in paris. Ahab's harpoon had shed older blood than the pharaohs. Methuselah seems a schoolboy. Then the whole world was the whales. And king of creation, he left his wake along the present line of the andes and the himalayas. Who can show a pedigree like leviathan? I am by a flood borne back to that wondrous period ere time itself can be said to have begun.