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THE SEA. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE GHEAT ATLANTIC FERRY. 



The "Grand Tour" of Former Days The only Grand Tour left- 

 Round the World in Eighty Days Fresh-water Sailors and 

 Nautical Ladies Modern Steamships and their Speed The 

 Orient Rivals Routes round the Globe Sir John Mandeville 

 on the Subject Difficulties in some Directions -The Great Atlantic 

 Ferry Dickens's Experiences Sea Sickness-Night at Sea The 

 Ship Rights And then Wrongs A Ridiculous Situation Modern 

 First-class Accommodation The Woes of the Steerage Mark 

 Tapley Immense Emigration of Third-class Passengers Dis- 

 comfort and Misery Efforts to Improve the Steerage "Inter- 

 mediate" Castle Gardens, New York Voyage safer than by 

 the Bay of Biscay The Chimborazo in a Hurricane. 



" Come, all ye jovial sailors, 



And listen unto me, 

 While I do sing the troubles 

 Of those that plough the sea." 



TT7E all know what the ' ' Grand Tour " meant a 

 few generations ago, and how without it no 

 gentleman's education was considered complete. 

 Now-a-days the journey can be made by almost 

 any one who can command thirty or forty pounds, 

 and the only really grand tour left is that around 



