Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . himself against the ship herself,and sends her to the bottom—the Sperm Whaleis reckoned the true king of the seas. There are many other kinds of whales in thesea, such as the Fin-Back, Hump-Back, Sul-phur-Bottom, etc., which on account of theirshyness or worthlessness are not hunted, and areconsequently little known. The two speciesabove described have almost entirely monopolizedthe attention of the whale fishers. When refined, the common whale and sperma-ceti oils are not distinguishable by our ordinaryperceptions. While the firs
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . himself against the ship herself,and sends her to the bottom—the Sperm Whaleis reckoned the true king of the seas. There are many other kinds of whales in thesea, such as the Fin-Back, Hump-Back, Sul-phur-Bottom, etc., which on account of theirshyness or worthlessness are not hunted, and areconsequently little known. The two speciesabove described have almost entirely monopolizedthe attention of the whale fishers. When refined, the common whale and sperma-ceti oils are not distinguishable by our ordinaryperceptions. While the first is worth forty cents,and the latter a dollar and eighty cents per gal-lon, it is scarcely to be wondered at that the con-sumer can so rarely procure pure sperm oil. Al-though one of the safest, most agreeable, andbrilliant illuminators ever used, its reputationhas suffered so much from this facility of adulter-ation that it has been almost universally dis-carded. In proving the oil furnished for the UnitedStates light-houses the assayer uses three
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