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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... ... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...3 The Spouter Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4 The Counterpane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Br... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ...whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean till it boil.” Sir William Davenant. Preface to Gondibert. “What sper... ...eabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream.” Paradise Lost. —— “There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatur... ...hale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coasts, are the property of the king.” Blackstone. “Soon to the sport of de... ... for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on bar barous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and cou... ...ZA, Who were towed out of sight by a Whale, On the Off shore Ground in the PACIFIC, December 31st, 1839. THIS MARBLE Is here placed by their surviving...

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