It has been said that the whale only breathes through his spout-hole; if it could truthfully be added that his spouts are mixed with water, then I opine we should be furnished with the reason why his sense of smell seems obliterated in him; for the only thing about him that at all answers to his nose is that identical spout-hole; and being so clogged with two elements, it could not be expected to have the power of smelling.
I opine, that it is plainly traceable to the first arrival of the Greenland whaling ships in London, more than two centuries ago.
We had no male griffins in Scotland, which is why some opine that we see no griffins at all today.