Author: R. P. Gillies

Cited by

• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere may recollect having seen large curved bones set upright in the earth, either to form arches over gateways, or entrances to alcoves, and they may perhaps have been told that these were the ribs of whales.
    FROM: Tales of a Whale Voyager to the Arctic Ocean., (1826), Book, NULL