RE THE FLOOD.</p>
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<p>“Io!  Paean!  Io! sing.</p>
<p>To the finny people’s king.</p>
<p>Not a mightier whale than this</p>
<p>In the vast Atlantic is;</p>
<p>Not a fatter fish than he,</p>
<p>Flounders round the Polar Sea."</p>
    <p class="source-rw">—CHARLES LAMB’S TRIUMPH OF THE WHALE.</p></div>
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<p>“In the year 1690 some persons were on a high hill observing the whales spouting and sporting with each other, when 