{"id":"01KF7FPMJMCDARTFE84A86QATW","cid":"bafkreigs2c74n57xrok2ey2qpdqehvbp2ujmlz3f44wsnltdohcpjsmjwu","type":"chapter","properties":{"end_line":14463,"extracted_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:15.089Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"The Fountain","source_file":"01KESYVB66H8YEVTN88DWE9W8D","start_line":14447,"text":"CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.\r\n\r\nThat for six thousand years—and no one knows how many millions of ages\r\nbefore—the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and\r\nsprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so many\r\nsprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for some centuries back,\r\nthousands of hunters should have been close by the fountain of the\r\nwhale, watching these sprinklings and spoutings—that all this should\r\nbe, and yet, that down to this blessed minute (fifteen and a quarter\r\nminutes past one o’clock P.M. of this sixteenth day of December, A.D.\r\n1851), it should still remain a problem, whether these spoutings are,\r\nafter all, really water, or nothing but vapor—this is surely a\r\nnoteworthy thing.\r\n\r\nLet us, then, look at this matter, along with some interesting items\r\ncontingent. Every one knows that by the peculiar cunning of their\r\ngills, the finny tribes in general breathe the air which at all times\r","title":"The Fountain"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KF7FPKDT5SHSH1ZQV6ABHQCA","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"book","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KF7FPKDT5SHSH1ZQV6ABHQCA","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"book","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KESYJX0Z6XE0HWTS5N3SDG0B","peer_label":"The Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:15.807Z","ts":"2026-01-18T02:42:15.807Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KF7FCDA7SCSJ6A30TDPDSJQV"}}