the grounds upon which linnæus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: "on account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, their movable eyelids, their hollow ears, penem intrantem feminam mammis lactantem," and finally, "ex lege naturæ jure meritoque." i submitted all this to my friends simeon macey and charley coffin, of nantucket, both messmates of mine in a certain voyage, and they united in the opinion that the reasons set forth were altogether insufficient. charley profanely hinted they were humbug.