 SAID VESSEL. NEW YORK, 1821.</p>
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<p>“A mariner sat in the shrouds one night,</p>
<p>The wind was piping free;</p>
<p>Now bright, now dimmed, was the moonlight pale,</p>
<p>And the phospher gleamed in the wake of the whale,</p>
<p>As it floundered in the sea."</p>
<p class="source-rw">—ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH.</p></div>

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<p>“The quantity of line withdrawn from the boats engaged in the capture of this one whale, amounted alt