by the above definition of what a whale is, i do by no means exclude from the leviathanic brotherhood any sea creature hitherto identified with the whale by the best informed nantucketers; nor, on the other hand, link with it any fish hitherto authoritatively regarded as alien.* hence, all the smaller, spouting, and horizontal tailed fish must be included in this ground-plan of cetology. now, then, come the grand divisions of the entire whale host.