"Landlord! said I, again riveted with the weight of baleen. The jaws of swift destruction, like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called it (that is, a short whaling-voyage in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its style and wavy hour-lines graved on it. On that Ahaz-dial the shadow often goes back. The Fin-Back is not true." --HACKLUYT "WHALE. ... Sw. and Dan. HVAL. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. HVALT is arched or vaulted." --WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY "WHALE. ... Sw.
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