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共 21 段- I lament the decay of the old nautical costumes. There was a
- So of the corposant, that ghostly meteoric exhalation, which
- It was an old superstition that the rotten timbers of founde
- Of all the changes which the sea-vocation has witnessed none
- The question of this dominion became a vital one to this cou
- This fairly comes under the heading of what Wordsworth calls
- Few features of those chronicles of adventure which are incl
- Those were days when a cruise against the smugglers promised
- Not in many directions do I find new readings of old terms.
- But the singular slowness of this journey down the Channel i
- There was a very costly wreck in 1767. She was a Dutch East
- She sailed from Dunkirk on Saturday, October 31, 1840, in ch
- When absurd natural touches of this kind are brought under o
- The model craft exercises a fascination that is felt beyond
- But much of what old ocean has of romance in its history lie
- The Acapulco galleons had long inspired the dreams of the En
- Niceties in nomenclature may be found as low down even as th
- It is true, nevertheless, that the mariners of certain natio
- Therefore, in so far as the loadline is designed for the pro
- I suppose the _chasse-marée_ is the lineal descendant of tho
- But if privateersmen could be found able to swallow six quar