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Obed Macy
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“In the year 1690, the same in which Ichabod Paddock was sent for from Cape Cod, ... some persons were on a high hill, afterwards called Folly House Hill, observing the whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed "there," pointing to the sea, "is a green pasture where our children's grand-children will go for bread.”
Obed Macy (1762–1844) first seen 1835 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The History of Nantucket (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1835), p. 33. Appended, along with many other cetaceous quotations, to Moby-Dick (1851), "Extracts (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian)