1880. _Echoes from the Counties._ London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co.

It's a florid passage about Greenland whaling, but not with any specifics, just images.

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But though the route to the remotest realms of ice and darkness is now seldom taken, the commerce with the Baltic along the old beaten track still flourishes in greater vigour than ever, and still may be heard amid the clank of great chains and the rattle of tarry cordage, this favourite old refrain, as the brawny sailors step round the groaning capstan—

''Sally's going to Petersburgh—
             Sing, Sally, ho!"
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