"In the year 1690 some persons were on a high hill observing the whales
spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed: there- pointing to the
sea- is a green pasture where our children's grand- children will go for bread."
OBED MACY'S HISTORY OF NANTUCKET.

"I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a gateway in the form of a
Gothic Arch, by setting up a whale's jaw bones."
HAWTHORNE'S TWICE TOLD TALES.

"She came to bespeak a monument for her first love, who had been killed by a
whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years ago."
IBID.

"No, Sir, 'tis a Right Whale," answered Tom; "I saw his sprout; he threw up a
pair of as pretty rainbows as a Christian would wish to look at. He's a raal
oil-butt, that fellow!"
COOPER'S PILOT.

"The papers were brought in, and we saw in the Berlin Gazette that whales had
been introduced on the stage there."
ECKERMANN'S CONVERSATIONS WITH GOETHE.

"My God! Mr. Chace, what is the matter?" I answered, "we have been stove by a whale."
"NARRATIVE OF THE SHIPWRECK OF THE WHALE SHIP ESSEX OF NANTUCKET, WHICH WAS
ATTACKED AND FINALLY DESTROYED BY A LARGE SPERM WHALE IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN."
BY OWEN CHACE OF NANTUCKET, FIRST MATE OF SAID VESSEL. NEW YORK, 1821.

"The quantity of line withdrawn from the boats engaged in the capture of this
one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six English miles." * * *
"Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the air, which, cracking
like a whip, resounds to the distance of three or four miles."
SCORESBY.

"Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the infuriated
Sperm Whale rolls over and over; he rears his enormous head, and with wide
expanded jaws snaps at everything around him; he rushes at the boats with his
head; they are propelled before him with vast swiftness, and sometimes utterly
destroyed.
* * * It is a matter of great astonishment that the consideration of the
habits of so interesting, and, in a commercial point of view, so important an
animal (as the Sperm Whale) should have been so entirely neglected, or should
have excited so little curiosity among the numerous, and many of them competent
observers, that of late years, must have possessed the most abundant and the
most convenient opportunities of witnessing their habitudes."
THOMAS BEALE'S HISTORY OF THE SPERM WHALE, 1839.

"The Cachalot" (Sperm Whale) "is not only better armed than the True Whale"
(Greenland or Right Whale) "in possessing a formidable weapon at either
extremity of its body, but also more frequently displays a disposition to employ
these weapons offensively and in manner at once so artful, bold, and
mischievous, as to lead to its being regarded as the most dangerous to attack of
all the known species of the whale tribe."
FREDERICK DEBELL BENNETT'S WHALING VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE, 1840.

October 13. "There she blows," was sung out from the mast-head.
"Where away?" demanded the captain.
"Three points off the lee bow, sir."
"Raise up your wheel. Steady!"
"Steady, sir."
"Mast-head ahoy! Do you see that whale now?"
"Ay ay, sir! A shoal of Sperm Whales! There she blows! There she breaches!"
"Sing out! sing out every time!"
"Ay Ay, sir! There she blows! there- there- thar she blows -bowes -bo-o-os!"
"How far off?"
"Two miles and a half."
"Thunder and lightning! so near! Call all hands."
J. ROSS BROWNE'S ETCHINGS OF A WHALING CRUIZE. 1846.

"The Whale-ship Globe, on board of which vessel occurred the horrid
transactions we are about to relate, belonged to the island of Nantucket."
"NARRATIVE OF THE GLOBE," BY LAY AND HUSSEY SURVIVORS. A.D. 1828.