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THE PROPOSAL. 



that, in each of these supposed cases, the traveller 

 and visitor, resigning the desire to achieve what is 

 impossible, would give themselves up to the agree- 

 able guidance of a wandering and wayward fancy. 



Let us, reader, act in a somewhat similar manner. 

 Let us touch here, and there, and everywhere, on 

 the wonders of the sea, and listen to such notes 

 of the Ocean's Voice as strike upon our ears most 

 pleasantly. 



(451) 



