Let the waters bring forth after their
kind. The species of the cetacean is one; another is that of
small fish. What infinite variety in the different kinds!
All have their own names, different food, different form, shape, and
quality of flesh. All present infinite variety, and are divided
into innumerable classes. Is there a tunny fisher who can
enumerate to us the different varieties of that fish? And yet
they tell us that at the sight of great swarms of fish they can almost
tell the number of the individual ones which compose it. What man
is there of all that have spent their long lives by coasts and shores,
who can inform us with exactness of the history of all fish?