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... arrived between 48 and 52 degrees north latitude , we narrowly es- caped coming in contact with an enormous ice- berg , two of which were descried at daybreak by the " look - out , " floundering majestically a little on the ship's ...
... arrived between 48 and 52 degrees north latitude , we narrowly es- caped coming in contact with an enormous ice- berg , two of which were descried at daybreak by the " look - out , " floundering majestically a little on the ship's ...
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... arrived at New York presented a pitiable sight , having been rigidly debarred by the captain's orders of many of the commonest neces- saries , I believe , the whole time . Here he was released and discharged from the ship , glad enough ...
... arrived at New York presented a pitiable sight , having been rigidly debarred by the captain's orders of many of the commonest neces- saries , I believe , the whole time . Here he was released and discharged from the ship , glad enough ...
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... implicitly obedient , and the captain very soon after his arrival retired into the cabin , glad to be relieved from a heavy responsibility . The following morning , the haze having cleared 8 QUARANTINE . off , we could again see the.
... implicitly obedient , and the captain very soon after his arrival retired into the cabin , glad to be relieved from a heavy responsibility . The following morning , the haze having cleared 8 QUARANTINE . off , we could again see the.
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... arriving at the approach to the entrance or mouth of the river Hudson , which is formed by an arm of the estuary , we turned the promon- tory , leaving Jersey on the left , the battery as we entered the harbour being in the foreground ...
... arriving at the approach to the entrance or mouth of the river Hudson , which is formed by an arm of the estuary , we turned the promon- tory , leaving Jersey on the left , the battery as we entered the harbour being in the foreground ...
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... arrived the commander of a French ship of war was much chagrined , on firing a salute as he passed the battery at New York , to find that his courtesy was not returned in the customary way . He complained of the omission as either a ...
... arrived the commander of a French ship of war was much chagrined , on firing a salute as he passed the battery at New York , to find that his courtesy was not returned in the customary way . He complained of the omission as either a ...
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Page 131 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Page 32 - THE STEAMBOAT SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling waves, As, crashing o'er their crested heads, She bows her surly slaves ! With foam before and fire behind, She rends the clinging sea, That flies before the roaring wind Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heaped and glistening bells, Falls round her fast, in ringing showers, With every wave that swells ; And, burning o'er the midnight deep, In lurid fringes thrown, The living gems of ocean...
Page 189 - Jonathan he composed a tune, and with much gravity recommended it to the officers, as one of the most celebrated airs of martial music. The joke took, to the no small amusement of the British corps. Brother Jonathan exclaimed it was nation fine...
Page 1 - A few short hours, and he will rise To give the morrow birth ; And I shall hail the main and skies, But not my mother earth. Deserted is my own good hall, Its hearth is desolate ; Wild weeds are gathering on the wall, My dog howls at the gate.
Page 188 - ... on the left of the British Army — some with long coats, some with short coats, and others with no coats at all...