Moby-Dick in Oswego

Oswego Commercial Times - Wednesday, November 26, 1851
via Fulton History

From the Oswego Daily Commercial Times, November 26, 1851 (then owned and published by James N. Brown); found online in the great and growing archives of historical newspapers from New York State and elsewhere at Fulton History.

MOBY-DICK, or the Whale. By Herman Mellville.--Persons who are fond of reading marvelous fish stories, this book will be welcome. It is written with considerable spirit, and abounds in wit and humor. 

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