Here ye strike but splintered hearts together--there, ye shall strike
unsplinterable glasses!
EXTRACTS.
"And God created great whales." --GENESIS.
"Leviathan maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep
to be hoary." --JOB.
"Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah."
--JONAH.
"There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to
play therein." --PSALMS.
"In that day, the Lord with his sore, and great, and strong sword,
shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that
crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea."
--ISAIAH
"And what thing soever besides cometh within the chaos of this
monster's mouth, be it beast, boat, or stone, down it goes all
incontinently that foul great swallow of his, and perisheth in the
bottomless gulf of his paunch." --HOLLAND'S PLUTARCH'S MORALS.
"The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are:
among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene, take up as
much in length as four acres or arpens of land." --HOLLAND'S PLINY.
"Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a
great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared.
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