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260 WEATHER-BOUND ,
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XLVL—WEATHER-BOUND. A STORY OF
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which Among like the a sciences certain ...
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260 Weather-Bound ,
260 WEATHER-BOUND ,
Xlvl—Weather-Bound. A Story Of
XLVL—WEATHER-BOUND . A STORY OF QUEEN ANNE'S DAYS .
Which Among Like The A Sciences Certain ...
which Among like the a sciences certain , geograp cardinal hy virtue must assuredl "be that y one oug in ht particular to begin ?
at home ; and yet between the old , notion inborn with most those men that which things lie within remote an must be distance better worth and the going new to facilities see than
-afforded now-a-days for distant easy travel , , we run some risk of being better acquainted with the Himalayan range than about with
the the islands mountains of the _ctf Great Persian Britain Gulf , than and of of knowing those which more dot our blossom home seas s . Take like , for a sea instance -flower , one out bri of ght the little North island Channel which .
There it lies up just off the coast of Antrim ; the tourist at the Eng Giant lishman 's causeway familiar looks with completel speck y into of it land , and in yet the m Mediter any an
ranean hardly knows so much every as the name of this little Raughlin _^ or The Rathlin spot , is as worth it is generall a visit y if called only . for the sake of the prospect
whichafter the miniature , island scenery through which you , reach a , its d surprise extreme eastern Opposite point lie , Jura breaks and upon Islay you beyond there these with
under gran a full burst . of sunshinethe mountains of ; Skye seem to her start rock out and from the -bound horizon shores . , Then the to Oantire the rig hills ht , Scotland the peak with s of
Arran , Ailsa Crai crag g , all these crowd , the panorama . , Turning to boulders the Irish and mainland columns , the of Benmore dark cliffs frown of the near Causeway at hand , the and giant the ;
while the skylin great to e is the barriers rugged west of the wi ro th unbroken ck distant , and peak channel hills , and . North crag , rise s south sheer near , and out and into east far ,
the Atlantic . A hundred sails dot tlie sweep waters ; the sea-fowl flas gyrate of so h and much in the whirr life sunshine by and . lig . Down ht Watching , turns below with them hundreds relief , the eye of to gulls , the fairly points toss wearied and of
towards human the swing group ing interest which on of to women a in shore bundle the ; busy p the of icture with children weed ; the - their gatherers genuine heavy primitiv - on laden Irish e the kel _Tboat low p all -furnace naked rocks lazily , ,
arm Such s and is leg Rathlin s , come in paddling its sunniest throug mood , h the . tide But -pools woe , . betide the
traveller Let the wind who puts only his blow faith from too any implicitl quarter y in but Rathlin the south sunshine , and .
with scant warning its grand headland , the Bull , retires into a
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/44/
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