id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt chapter-087 chapter-087 .txt text/plain 2090 72 67 Furthermore, as his windpipe solely opens into the tube of his spouting canal, and as that long canal--like the grand Erie Canal--is furnished with a sort of locks (that open and shut) for the downward retention of air or the upward exclusion of water, therefore the whale has no voice; unless you insult him by saying, that when he so strangely rumbles, he talks through his nose. You have seen him spout; then declare what the spout is; can you not tell water from air? cache/chapter-087.txt txt/chapter-087.txt