Floating Remembrances and Sketches of a Sea Life (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... "to Berlin"--"to Amsterdam"--"to Stockholm"--"to the Hague "--" to Hanover "--" to Warsaw "--"to Vienna"--"to Rome"--"to Madrid"--and thus the ideas which in London were confined to England--in Paris expand themselves throughout the whole of Europe, with grand and thrilling interest. But do I stop here, awarding the preference to France, because of our confined and insular position? No --and why? Because my country stands pre-eminent in nautical fame--because I have merely mentioned land carriage with its associations in the mind--because I have only yet spoken of the British Isles and Europe, whilst a wider field than both combined lies open to the view. If the departure of the mails on their several tracks is calculated to excite the musings of the moralist, what must be his sensations on visiting the numerous docks in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis, or at Liverpool, and reading on the several boards exhibited in the rigging of the vessels, "To Calcutta "--" to Canton "--" to South Australia "--" to Van Dieman's Land "--" to Otaheite"--"to Lima"--"to the River Plate"--"to Rio Janeiro"--"to Bahia"--"to Maranham"--"to Demerara "--" to the Caraccas "--" to the Bay of Honduras "--" to the West Indies" (naming the several islands respectively)--"to Charlestown"--"to Philadelphia"--"to New York"--"to Boston"--"to Halifax "--" to the River St. Lawrence" (Quebec and Montreal)--"to St. John's, Newfoundland"--to Hudson's Bay"--"to Baffin's Bay"--"to Greenland"--" to Iceland and Spitsbergen "--" to Archangel"--' to Stockholm "--" to Copenhagen "--the various ports of Europe--the Mediterranean on both shores--the Coast of Africa--the Cape of Good Hope--Madagascar--Bombay, Ceylon, Madras--in fact, to all the ports in the habitable part of the globe. Here then i...