Noah's Ark and Hell. Notice how both are described using a superlative adjective (first/driest), though neither is explicitly named.
"The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a widow." --Moby-Dick (1851)
Sept. 11.—If "time waits for no man," Heaven knows what this chronic rain stays for. We wait on it; but if anathema or any kind of curses, sacred or profane, could avail, it had inevitably gone to—the driest place we read of.
--Scenes Beyond the Western Border, September 1851; and
Scenes and Adventures in the Army
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