id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt chapter-076 chapter-076 .txt text/plain 1670 56 68 It may be but an idle whim, but it has always seemed to me, that the extraordinary vacillations of movement displayed by some whales when beset by three or four boats; the timidity and liability to queer frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve them. There are generally forty-two teeth in all; in old whales, much worn down, but undecayed; nor filled after our artificial fashion. cache/chapter-076.txt txt/chapter-076.txt