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    h&ggard , charred , and black lacerations to mark the wounds he had inflicted . They are the rents which his huge claws had torn in the face and breast of the mountain ' s beauty , that beauty which had kindled the envious fury of his hate . Nor was the town of Fuhchal without its novelty : houses all so un-English ; all white , steeples and turrets shooting up above the flat roofs , and all silently smiling under the sun ' s light ; the boats with their high pointing sterns , and gaudily coloured bows , a big eye looking out of each , or a bunch of flowers on each side washed by the spray ,,

    as they lay wobbling near the surfy beach ; the men standing to row ,, witn their faces to the boat ' s stem . And that genial richtaess of the climate , the ternperature , was alone sufficient to satisfy and repay every excited fancy or previous discomfort . Midsummer voluptuousness was in the air ; and twenty days ago I had been shivering in snow and sleet . Here all was glow and free elasticity : no buttoning up , no muffling of the body to exclude

    the cold blast and the snow ,, but , jacket discarded and neck bared to taste fully the fanning breeze through the sun ' s heat . ' People ought to be happy here , ' I thought : but , reader , we had business to do here in this pretty glorious place , and nature must be forgotten awhile : though , entre nous , 1 had much rather stay with her a little longer .

    The fleet of transports and victualling ships stood off and on under easy sail , at a little distance from the anchorage in Funchal bay , while the ships of war advanced under the batteries , and , taking their respective stations , Jeach to its own point of attack , came to anchor with springs on the cable . Understand this manoeuvre , reader , will you ? Where there is no tide , a ship always swings head to wind at her anchor , so we should have

    done here , or if we had swung head to tide , the position of the ship ' s broadside could not have admitted the pointing the guns to the objects of offence . A hawser is , in such cases , passed through a stern port , and being brought forward to the cable at the bow , is hauled upon till she is drawn by the sweep of her stern , with

    her broadside to the position required . Were I to tell this over again in a seamanlike , and strictly correct nautical fashion , I should puzzle you much more than I have done by this clumsy attempt . The York took one battery all to her own share , I forget the name of it , but I see it and her now , at the N . E . end of the town . The Invincible and the Admiral were in line , with heads

    a little east of the centre of the town , broadside on to Loo rock and castle , in which line also the A has taken up her station , close under the stern of the flag-ship ; a capital berth I assure you , reader , for getting wfcll peppered and pelted ; and the Shannon laterally from our larboard quarter . Every thing was now in order ; fires | extinguished , fearnought screens round the hatchways , for passing powder from the magazines . Shot racks draw a from under their peaceable coverings , and arrayed ready for their

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    * 8 Autobiography of Pel . Verfuict .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/38/