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Spout-Holes

1 passage in the novel carry this mark, in the order they appear.

Again, the Right Whale has two external spout-holes, the Sperm Whale only one.

Look your last, now, on these venerable hooded heads, while they yet lie together; for one will soon sink, unrecorded, in the sea; the other will not be very long in following.

Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale’s there?

Chapter 75, The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View · verse 13

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