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own grassy walk to the shore s which itself walked off , a spruce chaotite * in a green jacket . Meanwhile the ship itself and its swelling sail had also become animated , the former seeming the Long Tom , and the other , with its thick rotundity , the Falstaff of the party ; and there was the sea full of them , all dancing and
yelling and chorussing something about Chaos comes ! Chaos comes ! ' which he was already too much come , in my brains , for me to remember ; and then they joined hands , and jumped and capered till the very world and sky and all seemed reeling to their drunken measure , and with the rapid circular tread of their
infernal dance the sea itself was churned—churned I say , literally churned—just as it was once before , when Brahma and Narayan used it like a pot of milk to get at the Amreeta- —and triads the reason why . salt butter is at least five farthings a pound , besides the expense of carriage , cheaper here than you can possibly get it at . The ships were objects that could be seen from any part of the bay . The projecting cliff of which I had made a sail , but which the natives affirmed to be a white horse , and truly he has a magnificent saddle of green sea-weed on his back , on which Gog and Magog might ride double , required only a short walk on the Shanklin Sands to see all that I had seen . As my strength
increased and I could go farther a-field , or rather farther a-chn % the objects with which I became familiarized affected me in a less extravagant way , and kept the mental process in a corresponding ratio . with the physical improvement . There was still wildness in the fancies they suggested ,, but the longer were my walks , the clearer were my thoughts , and I got from the dark ageof demons , into the only dim mysteries of middle age , mythology . I next
reached . the region of red rock , about half way from the centre of the bay to the point of Culvfer . This is a strange amphitheatre , which looks as if it might have been a heathen temple with a huge form of an idol above , projecting from the cliff , to which it seems only to adhere by magic ; and a rude altar below which sea-kings might have landed to sacrifice their victims at . The strangest of all is , that the lofty idol has his back towards the
altar , and seems to hold in his hands a colossal volume . I read his history in a manuscript , entitled Autobiography of a Deity . ' He * was one of those extraordinary chieftains , who , in the heroic ages , did for various savage tribes the shadow of that which Moses did fo ; " the savage Israelites . They were under a different influence ; . and the fathers of the church knew , and have told a good
deal about the manner in which evil spirits mimicked the pror ceedings of divine inspiration ; and by th ^ ir oracles and arts did the world a certain degree of good , that they might the more effectually secure its homage , and maintain its dominion against its rightful Lord and his holy angels . So was this chieftain prompted , and he bad intercourse with the spirits whoov he
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/60/
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