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several States on the two continents, were
deeply interested in the matter.
For some time past vessels had been met
by “an enormous thing,” a long object,
spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent,
and infinitely larger and more rapid in its
movements than a whale.
arition (entered in various log-books) agreed in
most respects as to the shape of the object or
creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its
movements, its surprising power of locomotion,
and the peculiar life with which it seemed
endowed. If it was a whale, it surpassed in size