On this page

• Text (2)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    ence to a clear , frosty sun-set , when the thermometer is belowzero , and we , meantime , are dashing along in a cariole on the ice , the whole length of Lake St . Peter ' s , in Canada . That is a thing which may be gazed upon , but it is not to be talked of , not to be painted , —a scene which the soul may drink in , but which words can never re-deliver forth . He looks an ocean-bed of snow into the blended hues of an iris , then sinks to rest beneath it .

    The wind veered round to the Southward , when we had been at sea about ten days , and the fleet braced sharp up to battle with its opposition . It was indeed an inspiriting thing to gaze on so many coursers of the sea , as they galloped freely before the gale ; but now the scene took on and increased in attraction . The ships gained new impetus as they approached each other

    and bowed as they passed on opposite tacks , and then shot past with the speed of an arrow from a bow ; and as the distance grew they seemed to faint in their force of flight , as if the power which had drawn them on , and dashed them along , had spent itself * There again two might be seen racing side by side , straining for the mastery , bent down by the wind ' s pressure on their triple

    mountain piles of canvass , till the decks to leeward furrowed the water , each lurching and plunging in the swashing heaves of the sea , by fits , so that the stander there , and the looker on here , held their breaths , as if the whole bulks would topple over , and be whelmed beneath the ocean . But each gracefully and gloriously swung upwards again , and laughed in her security , while some

    more clumsily fashioned , built with a view to gormandizing a huge cargo , rather than to carry one quickly , dragged themselves heavily and slowly along , with creaking masts writhing under every patch of canvass they could muster , in the vain effort to keep pace with their more fortunate and fleety comrades . They faded to less and less , as the space between them and the better

    sailers widened . Then was the moment for the A to revel in her falcon speed . She darted down and along to the uttermost limits of the scattered fleet : now whizzing to the east ; throwing up broad and spreading fountains of spray as she split the oncoming billows in her westward dash ; then rocking from side to side , till her yard arms pointed at the yesty waves , as she swung

    in balance before the wind in her northward run : now bounding to this point , now darting to that , and wheeling round all with the rushing sweep of an eagle round a flock of swans , that flap their wings in laboured motion , until resuming her first position , she half enfolded her wings , and floated as she rested

    on her sea- ' Faith , reader , I began to be proud of my ship ! These baffling winds continued till the nineteenth day of our departure from Cork , then chopped round smilingly , ft was in the afternoon of that day , that ' Land ho , ' was sung out from the mast-head . — ' Whereabouts ? 1 from the quarter-deck . — ' Half a point on the larboard bow / and half a dozen glasses were levelled

    Untitled Article

    Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice . 35

    Untitled Article

    D 2

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/35/