The Porcupine is a ſmall thing not much unlike a Hedgehog; ſomething bigger, vvho ſtands upon his guard and proclaimes a Noli me tangere, to man and beaſt, that ſhall approach too neare him, darting his quills into their legges, and hides.

Among unicellulars, the rate of increase is beyond belief.

Yet we sail toward it grasping The outsight which we know is there.

Before the beachings, he notes, his team had spotted about 50 of the unusual Cuvier's beaked whales in the study area.