Author: William Scoresby

Cited by

• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The quantity of line withdrawn from the boats engaged in the capture of this one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six English miles.... Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the air, which, cracking like a whip, resounds to the distance of three or four miles.
    FROM: An account of the Arctic regions, (1820), Book, UK