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Excerpt from A Northern Summer, or Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804
Soon after we had quitted the tomb of the poor Nome gian, the mail arrived, and at five o'clock a favoring breeze bore us from the lessening shore. Now, as I am one of those unhappy beings who, like Gonzalo in the Tempest, would at any time give one thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground and as there may be many more who may find the rocking of the ocean Somewhat unfriendly to the 'regularity of appetite; let me advise them to lay in some anchovies, lemons, oranges, and a little brandy 'and as we are upon the subject of travelling econ let me also recommend the packing up of a pair 01 lea sheets and a leather pillow-case, in addition to their linen ones the former will prevent the penetration of damp, and repel vermin. As we passed Orfordness castle, the sun was setting in great glory and several ships working to windward, and alternately crossing each other, presented the most graceful figures: it was such a scene as the chaste spirit of Vernet might have hovered over with delight. The next day, we saw the topmasts of our brave blockaders ofi' the Texel; it was painful to contemplate the effects of a dire necessity which forces us to harass a people, who in their hearts cherish no ani mosity, but againstthe tyranny which separates them from us. A noble frigate from the squadron passed us under a cloud of sail, breasting the lofty surge she proudly dashed through the foam of the ocean, and to the eye of Fancy looked like the palace of Neptune. Her appear ance reminded me of the nervous, spirited, and Chatham like exclamation of a celebrated wit, upon the same sub ject: an English man-of-war is the thing after all she speaks all languages is the best negotiator, and the most profound politician, in this island she was Oliver Cromwell's embassador; she is one of the honestest ministers of state that ever existed, and never tells a lie; nor will she suffer the proudest Frenchman, Dutch man or Spaniard, to bamboozle or give her aosaucy an. Swer.
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