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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Melville, Herman ยท 57 words
That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia, was given to the enlightened world by the whaleman. After its first blunder born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale ship touched there. The whale ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony.
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