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    their gaze on the land , and the now opening Plymouth Sound , and glanced at each other in silence . The customary hallooing , cursing , and swearing , had sunk into murmurs , broken by a solitary harsh laugh , down in the den of the captives . Theirs , probably , was that feeling of suspense , which , on looking forward

    to a certainty of change of condition , is yet uncertain what may be the character of that change ; the thoughts roam among doubts and probabilities , and create that nervous irritability , in which mind holds converse with itself alone . They all seemed to be soliloquizing on the future . Could the reckless and desperate among them be moved by thinking of the future ? Ay , reader , for that future was an English man-of-war . With the officers and crew of the ship , the cause of this orderly quietness was different ; the y were entering a royal seaport ; advancing among strictly disciplined ships of war ; superior eyes were observing the lieutenant of the Friendship , and his discipline , and in deferential respect we , that is they , bowed , or seemed to bow , as they approached the gaze of the great ones . I know that my senses were highly excited , ay , and deeply stirred ; mine was the vague and benumbing feeling , that , in a few hours , the die would be thrown , which should decide whether I should be freed from , or plunged inextricably in , the degradation which I so much

    dreaded . Thus did chilling apprehension and glowing hope . mingle with that rapture and delight in which I fastened my eyes on the scene ; the eastern side of Plymouth Sound , its rocks , cliffs , verdure and cottages , as we rounded the Mewstone ; the sudden spreading , continuing beauty , of the view , thrilled through every nerve : the rolling swell of the billows now subsided into an even rippling ; laugh after laugh curled in orderly race along the shining water ; scattered on the face of which were tall huge ships , and further down , in the many inlets and harbours , a thousand masts shooting up among , between , and above the rocks and houses : then the black-toothed batteries , citadel ,

    soldiers' barracks , and magazines ; Drake ' s Island , leaving open a glimpse into Hamoaze , with the mastless masses of black and chequered hulks , sleeping on the smooth water ; then the projecting points of Mount JEdgecurnbe Park , carpeted with smooth verdure , and streaked and dotted with noble woods , looking like solid masses of emerald cut into fretwork . The glorious sun , blazing on the scene , threw its flashes of magnificence over love

    and beauty—crowded buildings struck one point of the view , and here and there , on some green and flowery slope , the villa stood blandly courting the gaze upon itself ; or the whitewashed cottage , nestled under a cliff , and sitting by a patch of greensward , spoke beguilingly of peace and contented comfort ; and the receding and distant hills , variegated with many hues , and swept with alternations of light and shade—old dusky Dartmoor solemnly reposing above and behind the wonder * and beauties

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    Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice / 817

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 817, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/13/