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Ear

1 passage in the novel carry this mark, in the order they appear.

If you are an entire stranger to their race, you might hunt over these two heads for hours, and never discover that organ. The ear has no external leaf whatever; and into the hole itself you can hardly insert a quill, so wondrously minute is it. It is lodged a little behind the eye.

Chapter 74, The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View · verse 13

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