Not P but Moby-Dick (53)

[Ian Livingston]

You are correct, Mike. A plate may also  be a print, within a book, for
instance, commonly a full page at that time. None of my antique books have
multiple plates on a single page. But then, I only have a few.

On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 4:21 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 68:
>
> By my retentive memory of the hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in
> particular, I was much struck with a plate representing the old Indian
> characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of
> the Upper Mississippi.
>
> The "plate" here means a page of illustrations, is that correct? This sense
> was used quite a few times in the book. The previous Chinese translations
> all interpreted it as a stone tablet, which I think is wrong.
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