This particular tongue now before us; at a passing glance I
should say it was a six-barreler; that is, it will yield you
about that amount of oil.
Ere this, you must have plainly seen the truth of what I started with--
that the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely
different heads. To sum up, then: in the Right Whale's there
is no great well of sperm; no ivory teeth at all; no long,
slender mandible of a lower jaw, like the Sperm Whale's. 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.
Look your last now, on these venerable hooded heads, while they
yet lie together; for one will soon sink, unrecorded, in the sea;
the other will not be very long in following.
Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale's there?
It is the same he died with, only some of the longer wrinkles
in the forehead seem now faded away. I think his broad brow
to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative
indifference as to death. But mark the other head's expression.
See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident against the vessel's side,
so as firmly to embrace the jaw.
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