From Moby Dick, on the Great Lakes: > they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks a

From Moby Dick, on the Great Lakes: > they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AMoby-Dick_(1851)_US_edition.djvu/304 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AMoby-Dick_(1851)_US_ed...