Octavo Whales

Moby-Dick Cetology
Navigation Back to Moby-Dick Home Table of Contents Chapter Index The Folio Whale Sperm Whale Right Whale Fin-Back Whale Humpbacked Whale Razor-Back Whale Sulphur Bottom Whale The Octavo Whale Grampus Black Fish Narwhale Thrasher Killer The Duodecimo Whale Huzza Porpoise Algerine Porpoise Mealy-mouthed Porpoise

These embrace the whales of middling magnitude, among which present may be numbered: the Grampus; the Black Fish; the Narwhale; Thrasher; Killer.

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