Both Uses of
Erie Canal
in
Moby Dick
- Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our grand Erie Canal.†
Chpt 52-54 *
- Furthermore, as his windpipe solely opens into the tube of his spouting canal, and as that long canal—like the grand Erie Canal—is furnished with a sort of locks (that open and shut) for the downward retention of air or the upward exclusion of water, therefore the whale has no voice; unless you insult him by saying, that when he so strangely rumbles, he talks through his nose.†
Chpt 85-87
Definition:
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(Erie Canal) historically important canal connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo