Sperm whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus, beached on a rocky shore. A crowd of tourists gather to view it. Le Physale Cylindrique, Physeter cylindricus. Handcoloured steel engraving by Charles Beyer after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Bernard Germain de Lacepede’s Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons, Furne et Cie, Paris, 1847.

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