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Herman Melville
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Cetology
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Razor-Back Whale
BOOK I
(Folio), CHAPTER IV.
(Hump Back)
This whale is often seen on the northern American coast.
He has been frequently captured there, and towed into harbor.
He has a great pack on him like a peddler; or you might call him the Elephant and Castle whale.
At any rate, the popular name for him does not sufficiently distinguish him, since the
sperm whale also has a hump though a smaller one.
His oil is not very valuable.
He has baleen.
He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any other of them.
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