The Battering-Ram

           Erequitting,forthenonce,theSpermWhale’shead,Iwouldhaveyou,asasensiblephysiologist,simply—particularlyremarkitsfrontaspect,inallitscompactedcollectedness.Iwouldhaveyouinvestigateitnowwiththesoleviewofformingtoyourselfsomeunexaggerated,intelligentestimateofwhateverbattering-rampowermaybelodgedthere.Hereisavitalpoint;foryoumusteithersatisfactorilysettlethismatterwithyourself,orforeverremainaninfidelastooneofthemostappalling,butnotthelesstrueevents,perhapsanywheretobefoundinallrecordedhistory.

           YouobservethatintheordinaryswimmingpositionoftheSpermWhale,thefrontofhisheadpresentsanalmostwhollyverticalplanetothewater;youobservethatthelowerpartofthatfrontslopesconsiderablybackwards,soastofurnishmoreofaretreatforthelongsocketwhichreceivestheboom-likelowerjaw;youobservethatthemouthisentirelyunderthehead,muchinthesameway,indeed,asthoughyourownmouthwereentirelyunderyourchin.Moreoveryouobservethatthewhalehasnoexternalnose;andthatwhatnosehehas—hisspouthole—isonthetopofhishead;youobservethathiseyesandearsareatthesidesofhishead;nearlyonethirdofhisentirelengthfromthefront.Wherefore,youmustnowhaveperceivedthatthefrontoftheSpermWhale’sheadisadead,blindwall,withoutasingleorganortenderprominenceofanysortwhatsoever.

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