water-land

Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home.

So now will I have to read it? It's not like they did. Roger Sutton 2007

Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

I think he altered the passage in his later editions.] {251} [‘Island’, though cognate with Anglo-Saxon _eá-land_ “water-land”

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846