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These pages on the whaling industry even go so far as to distort Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick.”

It had once been a whaling village, and the humble buildings retained a rustic charm, though when Watson arrived the rustic quality was on a steep descent toward ruination.

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The robot’s computer brain retrieved information on the history of whaling, and she calculated the shark’s age to be over five hundred years.

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Located 30 miles off Cape Cod, Nantucket has transformed over centuries from a whaling port to a wealthy seasonal enclave, where typical homes cost millions of dollars yet many sit empty all winter.

As a teenager at the docks of Dundee, Shelley would have seen whaling ships just like the ones on display at the museum.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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