44 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



real old mother earth. As it grew still lighter, the white 

 spots took dark roofs, and coming to Point Linos, a telegraph 

 station was pointed out to us ; our signal was hoisted, and in 

 five minutes we had spoken our name to a man in Liverpool. 

 We had just begun to distinguish the hedgerows, when there 

 was a sudden flash of light, disclosing the cottage windows, 

 and Charley, looking east, exclaimed, &quot;TiiE SUN OF THE 

 OLD WORLD.&quot; 



A long, narrow, awkward ugly thing a cross of a canal- 

 boat with a Mystic fishing-smack with a single short mast, 

 a high-peaked mainsail, a narrow staysail coming to the 

 stem-head, and without any bowsprit ; so out from the last 

 fog-bank like an apparition comes the pilot-boat. Directly 

 she makes more sail, and runs rapidly towards us. Our 

 yachtman-passenger, coming on deck, calls her by name, 

 and says that she is here considered a model of beauty, and 

 that a portrait of her has been published. To say the right 

 thing for her, she does look stanch and weatherly, the sort 

 of craft altogether, if he were confined to her tonnage, and 

 more mindful of comfort than of time, that one might choose 

 to make a winter s cruise in off Hatteras, or to bang through 

 the ice after Sir John Franklin. The pilot she has now sent 

 aboard of us does not, in his appearance, contrast unfavourably 

 with our own pilots, as travellers have generally remarked 

 Liverpool pilots to. He is an intelligent, burly, sharp-voiced 

 Englishman a reliable-looking sort of man, only rather too 

 dressy for his work. He brings no news ; pilots never do. 

 When we took on board the New York pilot, in my passage 

 from the East Indies, we had had no intelligence from home 

 for more than six months. The greatest news the pilot 

 had for us, turned out to be that another edition of Blunt s 

 Coast Pilot was out. I contrived to keep myself within ear 

 shot of him and the captain, as they conversed for half an 



