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Boston Morning Journal
favorable
“The work is a singular mixture of fact and fiction. The supernatural is interwoven with the matter-of-fact delineations of life on board a whale ship. The descriptions of the various operations of the whalemen are remarkably life-like... In many respects Moby-Dick is the best of the works of the author, as it certainly is the most instructive. We predict for it, with confidence, an extended popularity.
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— November 18, 1851
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