Animals
Whales and other Cetaceans
Letter on dissection of a Porpoise found dead.
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This largeness of the brain argue this creature to be of more than ordinary wit and capacity: and make to seem less fabulous and improbable than those ancient stories related by Herodotus, pliny concerning a dolphin enamoured of a boy whom he was wont to carry across a bay.”
Further Correspondence p.61, 12 Sept 1671
Writing in 1691.
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The most noble and ingenious Creatures that live there, the Cetaceous Kind, being near akin to Terrestrial Animals, and breathing in the same Element, the open Air.”
Wisdom of God p.214