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avoid the glory of being run down. Sometimes, 

 when the wind raises the fog a Httle, and it rolls 

 along a few feet above the surface of the sea, the then 

 visible white line of suri' thrown out by the black 

 girdling rocks of the coast will be sufficient to indi- 

 cate pretty clearly the course which must be steered : 

 should this not occur the voyager must guide him- 

 self to the best of his ability by the position of the 

 snn and the sound of the breakers. 



The Mewstone itself will not be visible until he 

 has arrived close under it, and he will most probably 

 feel some surprise at its apparent magnitude, looming 

 like a huge mountain shadow above him. From the 

 highest pinnacle of the island, where the fog is less 

 dense, a singular mist-bow may be perceived varying 

 in distinctness and sharpness of outline as the sun is 

 more or less obscured ; its proportions will be found 

 to differ materially from those of the rainbow as ge- 

 nerally seen, its height being much greater than its 

 breadth at the base. The spectator also will perceive 

 a gigantic image of himself shadowed out on the sub- 

 jacent mist, which will perform every motion made 

 by the looker on : it may be formed similarly to the 

 spectre of the Brocken which appearance has been 

 explained by Dr. Brewster. 



The group of savage looking rocks called the little 

 Mewstone will be seen, dimly visible or sternly black, 

 as the mist rests upon or rolls over them, they are 

 seen to most effect at low water. 



Sam Wakeham is a tender husband and loves his 

 wife ; Sam Wakeham's wife is a good natured spouse 

 and loves Sam : she rests her hand upon his shoulder 

 by pure accident and calls him her dear Sam : and so 

 he ought to be, for while he was doing the affection- 

 ate to his dame futura he built her a house or rather 

 enlarged the one which was on the island before, a 

 small and inconvenient dwelling not exactly fitted for 

 Sam's offspring and appearing very much like a tar- 

 barrel with a nightcap on and the bung knocked out. 

 He prepared a spot for a garden by clearing it of 



