Moby-Dick; or, The Whale • Paragraph 2868
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• Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). • A few obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. • Inconsistent hypenation and archaic spelling left unchanged. • Reformatted September, 2025 to match the 1851 first edition, which appears to be the original source.