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MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 56 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 56 Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes In connexion with the monstrous pictures of whales I am strongly tempted here to enter upon those still more monstrous stories of them which are to be found in certain books both ancient and modern especially in Pliny Purchas Hackluyt Harris Cuvier c. But I pass that matter by. I know of only four published outlines of the great Sperm Whale Colnett s Huggins s Frederick Cuvier s and Beale s. In the previous chapter Colnett and Cuvier have been referred to. Huggins s is far better than theirs but by great odds Beale s is the best. All Beale s drawings of this whale are good excepting the middle figure in the picture of three whales in various attitudes capping his second chapter. His frontispiece boats attacking Sperm Whales though no doubt calculated to excite the civil scepticism of some parlor men is admirably correct and life-like in its general effect. Some of the Sperm Whale drawings in J. Ross Browne are pretty correct in contour but they are wretchedly engraved. That is not his fault though. Of the Right Whale the best outline pictures are in Scoresby but they are drawn on too small a scale to convey a desirable impression. He has but one picture of whaling scenes and this is a sad deficiency because it is by such pictures only when at all well done that you can derive anything like a truthful idea of the living whale as seen by his living hunters. But taken for all in all by far the finest though in some details not the most correct presentations of whales and whaling scenes to be anywhere found are two large French engravings well executed and taken from paintings by one Garnery. Respectively they represent attacks on the Sperm and Right Whale. In the first engraving a noble Sperm Whale is depicted in full majesty of might just risen beneath the boat from the profundities of the ocean and bearing high in the. air upon his back the terrific
