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  "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. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger.

Wallen; A.S. Walw-ian, to roll, to wallow."

    --RICHARDSON'S DICTIONARY



          KETOS,               Greek.

          CETUS,               Latin.

          WHOEL,               Anglo-Saxon.

          HVALT,               Danish.

          WAL,                 Dutch.

          HWAL,                Swedish.

          WHALE,               Icelandic.

          WHALE,               English.

          BALEINE,             French.

          BALLENA,             Spanish.

          PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE,     Fegee.

          PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE,     Erromangoan.

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    Like as the wounded whale to shore flies thro' the maine."

  --THE FAERIE QUEEN.



  "Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a

peaceful calm trouble the ocean til it boil."

  --SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT. PREFACE TO GONDIBERT.



  "What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned

Hosmannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly, Nescio quid

sit."

  --SIR T. BROWNE. OF SPERMA CETI AND THE SPERMA CETI WHALE. VIDE HIS V. E.



    "Like Spencer's Talus with his modern flail

    He threatens ruin with his ponderous tail.

      ...

    Their fixed jav'lins in his side he wears,

    And on his back a grove of pikes appears."

  --WALLER'S BATTLE OF THE SUMMER ISLANDS.



  "By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or

State--(in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man."

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the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage

through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood

gushing from the whale's heart."

  --PALEY'S THEOLOGY.



  "The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind feet."

  --BARON CUVIER.



  "In 40 degrees south, we saw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take

any till the first of May, the sea being then covered with them."

  --COLNETT'S VOYAGE FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXTENDING THE SPERMACETI

WHALE FISHERY.



    "In the free element beneath me swam,

    Floundered and dived, in play, in chace, in battle,

    Fishes of every color, form, and kind;

    Which language cannot paint, and mariner

    Had never seen; from dread Leviathan

    To insect millions peopling every wave:

    Gather'd in shoals immense, like floating islands,

    Led by mysterious instincts through that waste