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Albany (NY) Evening Atlas
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“We cannot say that we admire this volume as much as some of its predecessors... it bears evident marks of carelessness and haste. But, nevertheless, whatever Melville writes will be read, for he is one of those few who have made their mark upon the literature of the age.
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— November 21, 1851
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- ✅ Victorian vocabulary — obsolete words and nautical terms defined inline
- ✅ Biblical & literary references — every allusion traced to its source