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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Melville, Herman ยท 57 words
BOOK I. Folio, CHAPTER III. Fin Back. Under this head I reckon a monster which, by the various names of Fin Back, Tall Spout, and Long John, has been seen almost in every sea and is commonly the whale whose distant jet is so often descried by passengers crossing the Atlantic, in the New York packet tracks.
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