"MOBY DICK ABOUT GENT, ANTWERP AND THE DISCOVERY OF CAPE GOOD HOPE"
"How wildly it heightens the effect of that passage in Froissart, when, masked in the snowy symbol of their faction, the desperate White Hoods of Ghent murder their bailiff in the market-place !" (p.171)
"Detached broken fossils of pre-adamite whales, fragments of their bones and skeletons, have within thirty years passed, at various intervalls, been found at the base of the Alps, in Lombardy, in France, in England, in Scotland... and bones disinterred in excavating the great docks of Antwerp, in Napoleon's time" (p.407)
"Besides, this idea of Jonah's weathering the Cape of Good Hope at so early a day would wrest the honor of the discovery of that great headland from Bartholomew Diaz , its reputed discoverer, and so make modern history a liar" (p.328).