rce-rw">—UNO VON TROIL’S LETTERS ON BANKS’S AND SOLANDER’S VOYAGE TO ICELAND IN 1772.</p>
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<p>“The Spermacetti Whale found by the Nantuckois, is an active, fierce animal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen.”</p>
<p class="source-rw">—THOMAS JEFFERSON’S WHALE MEMORIAL TO THE FRENCH MINISTER IN 1778.</p>
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<p>“And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?”</p>
<p class="source-rw">—EDMU