The Nantucketer

Two thirds of this globe are the nantucketers. He alone, in bible language, goes down to it in ships to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation. There lies his business, which a noah's flood would not interrupt. Let america add mexico to texas and pile cuba upon canada. Let the english overswarm all india and hang out their blazing banner from the sun. For the sea is his. Other seamen having but a right of way through it,. merchant ships are but extension bridges, armed ones, but floating forts. Even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road,