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Quote #4
There is a peculiar character about the wood which strikes me as rendering it unfit for the purpose to which it has been applied. (17)
Poe implies that the wood has been altered or changed. Could it be that it is not wood from any world that we know of? Is it ancient? Has it time-traveled?
Quote #5
Although the speaker was close at my elbow, yet his voice seemed to reach my ears from the distance of a mile. (21)
Space and sound are distorted here. Considering that they're travelling great distances through the ocean, we might assume that they're traveling much, much farther than any normal voyage… or perhaps that it hasn't moved very far at all and they're in some weird time warp.
Quote #6
Although upreared upon the summit of a wave of more than a hundred times her own altitude, her apparent size still exceeded that of any ship of the line or East Indiaman in existence. (9)
There's a bit of a misdirect here. The narrator's talking about the size of the ship… and yet he also says that the waves are a hundred times taller, which (if the narrator is accurate) couldn't possibly be real.