"Then, again, in mountainous countries where the traveller is continually girdled by amphitheatrical heights; here and there from some lucky point of view you will catch passing glimpses of the profiles of whales defined along the undulating ridges. But you must be a thorough whaleman, to see these sights; and not only that, if you wish to return to such a sight again, you must be sure and take the exact intersecting latitude and longitude of your first stand-point, else--so chance-like are such observations of the hills--your precise, previous stand-point would require a laborious re-discovery..."
-Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
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