The Osceola times., 1878-12-21

OF water which IlbeS W bOno uciRut, buu
is termed blowing" In their internal
anatomy they present features Of perfect
agreement with man and all marhmab Of
ouadrupeds. They have q four.chams
bered heart, this being the highest type
OF heart that We meet with In the animal
series and in respect Of their brsin struc-
ture and of other characters, the whales
,resent close resemblance TO the quad.
ru pedss- The head OF the whale 10 dis
p,sportionately large In comparison with
the size of the body, generally being one.
third, and sometimes ene.hslf, the size of
the latter. The female produces her
young alive, after CESSATION Of nine
months, and they are nourished with
milk. Tie strong attachment existing
between the mother whale and her Off
spring, and the devoted protection ex'
tended by the former to r; Iattef, are
,satters of-common kadge fsUtliar
a. s,i vho have I'D accounts OF whaling
70 Saa saad t ;t;orn - Instances are known where
The mo.sef whale has sacrificed her lie
..ner than leave her young. The
arrangement of the baleen or whalebone
In the right whale is very peculiar. A
strong, long keel runs along the center of
the palate, on each side of which is q
broad depression, along which the plates
of baleen are attached. These are long
and fat, and the largest measures from
ten to twelve feet In length, and are
attached TO the palate by their bases
hanging down into the mouth. From
these being placed transversely, their
sides are parallel and at very short dis
tance from each other, the base OF each,
a. well as the outer edge, being composed
Of whalebone, while the inner edge ter.
inmates in flament of fibres which fill
up the whole interior the mouth across
1t.
The object of this is entirely owing to
the arrangement of the stomach of the
whale, which is 10 small In comparison
with his great bulk that his food con-
sists only of the small or minute animals,
allied to the Jelly fishes and the like, q
herring Icing the largest fiSh he can
swallow. 10 pro,~. his prev he in thus
Obliged to ingulf a whole si--i in h;s
.capacious mouth at once. The water is
then strained off and poured through the
blow-holes, while the animal can pass
his diminu sivc prey into the aesophagus
as he requires. 1t may be thus seen that
the wbalebone plates serve as kind Of
gigantic sieve or strsiner. These plates
generally number about 600.. The sperm
whale possesses no whalebon plates.
With an ignorance of science, which now
Is laughable even to our children, who
know that the material for stays and
hoops is taken from the mouth, the law
in the time of Charles III. appropriated
the tail Of every whale taken by an Eng
hsh subject tn the use OF Ahe Queen ~
the supply of the royal wardrobe ine
covering of the whales body Dns,sss s,
typicslly of hairs, and not 1Ies,
although this body-coveE9 ou'
scarcely or not at al dew,
Historians in gegxd 1tse INV ,.si, gwen 'ns ne
having hrst prsfh century Alfred the
put IN tne m England is indebted for
Great, 10 Mon OF her naval establish.
tne WMened to the tales of Octher.
menMeeian, who related the adyep
rs OF av yage along the coast OF Nor.
LAY SO far north as commonly the |
whale hunters do travel" and told that
ie was one Of six tina. killed sixty
whales in two days, OF which some we're
orty eight some fifty yards long"
lnis incident Ia believed to be the
'arliest historical notice of the subiuga-
ion OF this monarch OF the sea TO he
'ses OF man. The whales OF October
Vere whoppers, and their size ID beyopd
omparison with any. found in present
imes' II was not until the seventeenth
entury that the whale fishory eurseed
he Maritime Nations Of Europe q An
important branch Of commerce.. This
rst person that Is recorded 70 have kilJe
whale among the people N this country
one william Hamilton o. Nas.
achusetts, somewhere between 1860 and
670.p ". Sooresby, F. r. s., In 1 lecture
the London Institution, stated that
'haies are known to descend perpen-
icuiarly from 1900 to 4,S0O feet ana
the latter depth he calculated, from
ccufate data, that 4 large whale would
ave 70 sustain the pressure OF 2l2 200
Dns, distributed over the entire r,lrfsce.
! sb.nt ls7 ~ tous On every squasel
'ot of iis body.
The mstfrials Tor artificial Iieit and
y tne iahiieatlos VI pachi6)prx ~ now
!pplk 4 non many tGdi6od; "a - ~ 4
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