ogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six English miles....</p>
<p>“Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the air, which, cracking like a whip, resounds to the distance of three or four miles.”</p>
<p class="source-rw">—SCORESBY.</p>
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<p>“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 