{"id":"01KFNR88B5TWR2YFM0N7H29KQ1","cid":"bafkreidqo2yg4fbfsu65ewtw5c5szusyheeawwlenm7vrbyve33n4jrv2y","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":10918,"extracted_at":"2026-01-23T15:41:03.448Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KFNR0Z394A878Y5AQ63MQEM2","start_line":10878,"text":"sleepy, the anvil-headed whale would be best. But these knocking whales\r\nare seldom remarkable as faithful essays. On the spires of some\r\nold-fashioned churches you will see sheet-iron whales placed there for\r\nweather-cocks; but they are so elevated, and besides that are to all\r\nintents and purposes so labelled with “_Hands off!_” you cannot examine\r\nthem closely enough to decide upon their merit.\r\n\r\nIn bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken\r\ncliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the plain,\r\nyou will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the\r\nLeviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against\r\nthem in a surf of green surges.\r\n\r\nThen, again, in mountainous countries where the traveller is\r\ncontinually girdled by amphitheatrical heights; here and there from\r\nsome lucky point of view you will catch passing glimpses of the\r\nprofiles of whales defined along the undulating ridges. But you must be\r\na thorough whaleman, to see these sights; and not only that, but if you\r\nwish to return to such a sight again, you must be sure and take the\r\nexact intersecting latitude and longitude of your first stand-point,\r\nelse so chance-like are such observations of the hills, that your\r\nprecise, previous stand-point would require a laborious re-discovery;\r\nlike the Soloma Islands, which still remain incognita, though once\r\nhigh-ruffed Mendanna trod them and old Figuera chronicled them.\r\n\r\nNor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out\r\ngreat whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them; as\r\nwhen long filled with thoughts of war the Eastern nations saw armies\r\nlocked in battle among the clouds. Thus at the North have I chased\r\nLeviathan round and round the Pole with the revolutions of the bright\r\npoints that first defined him to me. And beneath the effulgent\r\nAntarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase\r\nagainst the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and\r\nthe Flying Fish.\r\n\r\nWith a frigate’s anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for\r\nspurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to\r\nsee whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really\r\nlie encamped beyond my mortal sight!\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFNR84F3VYSKZ9XR316R4219","peer_label":"57","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFNR84F3VYSKZ9XR316R4219","peer_label":"57","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KFNR81RMVAX2BBMMBW51V97D","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"novel","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KFNR0H0Q791Y1SMZWEQ09FGV","peer_label":"Moby Dick","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KFNR88ARD5P84BD5JXYFE58C","peer_label":"Chunk 0","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-23T15:41:03.878Z","ts":"2026-01-23T15:41:18.857Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}