Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Nineteenth-century authors often included encyclopedic information in

Nineteenth-century authors often included encyclopedic information in their novels; Melville's famous chapter of the physiology on whales, contained as it is in his masterwork Moby-Dick, serves as a perfect example of this phenomenon.

A. contained as it is in
"it" is referring back to " Melville's famous chapter of the physiology on whales". so now let's put it in the sentence
Melville's famous chapter of the physiology on whales, contained as Melville's famous chapter of
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