
Moby Dick - Chapters 74 and 75
Phoebe Reads a Mystery
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The Right Whale and the Sperm Whale Have a Different Head
There are about 250 fins growing on each side of his upper op which arch over his tongue. This reminds us that the right whale really has a sort of whisker, or rather a moustache. To sum up, then, in the right whales there is no great well of sperm, no ivory teeth at all,. No long, slender mandible of a lower jaw like the sperm whales. Nor in the sperm whale are there any of those blinds of bone, no huge lower lip, and scarcely anything of a tongue. Again, the right whale has two external spout holes, the sperm whale only one. For one will soon sink unrecorded in the sea.
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