The White Whale, a Spectacular Specimen of the Fishery

The white whale had a peculiar, snow white, wrinkled forehead and a high, pyramadical white hump. These were his prominent features the tokens whereby, even in the limitless uncharted seas, he revealed his identity at a long distance to those who knew him. Nor was it his unwonted magnitude, nor his remarkable hue, nor yet his deformed lower jaw that so much invested the whale with natural terror as that unexampled intelligent malignity. Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them, but deliriously transferring its deal to the abhorred white whales. He plied upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the general rage and