"Though her voyage of twelve hundred miles extends from apple to orange, from clime to clime, yet, like any small ferry-boat, to right and left, at every landing, the huge ship still receives additional passengers in exchange for those that

"Pierced along its great white bulk with two tiers of small embrasure-like windows, well above the waterline, the Fiddle, though, might at distance have been taken by strangers for some whitewashed fort on a floating isle. Merchants on

"Merchants on 'change seem the passengers that buzz on her decks, while, from quarters unseen, comes a murmur as of bees in the comb." Does he mean "the passengers seem to be merchants on change on her deck(...)"? What

By "Such the epitaphic comments" did he intend to say "such were the epitaphic comments" and is it a metaphor?

""Odd fish!" "Poor fellow!" "Who can he be?" "Casper Hauser." "Bless my soul!" "Uncommon countenance." "Green prophet from Utah." "Humbug!" "Singular

"Presently, as if not wholly unaffected by his reception thus far, he went forward, seating himself in a retired spot on the forecastle, nigh the foot of a ladder there leading to a deck above, up and down which ladder some of the boatmen, in

Please, tell me if I am correct. "Over" in this context means: To another often specified place or position? Moreover, is "next door but two" an elliptical form of "next door but two doors away"? Because to me, in

I want to write just like him. Do you know where I can learn to do that? But before I can use his constructions, I have to understand the reasoning behind it. Can you provide any help?

FULL EXTRACT "To some observers, the singularity, if not lunacy, of the stranger was heightened by his muteness, and, perhaps also, by the contrast to his proceedings afforded in the actions-quite in the wonted and sensible order of things-of