FISHERMEN'S MEMORIAL AND RECORD BOOK. 7 



These perils have made of Georges a vast burial ground, where 

 the bones of the fishermen are moved with the changing tide, or lie 

 buried fur beneath the sands of her treacherous shoals. A vast sep- 

 ulchre, swallowing up many a young man in the pride of his youth, 

 many a middle-aged toiler upon whoso earnings a loving family were 

 dependent, and many an aged one whose voyage of life, at best, 

 would not have continued but a few years longer. What a throng 

 have thus heard the summons, and amid the shriek of the gale, the 

 crashing of timbers, met the " boatman pale v " and been transferred 

 from the storms of mortal life safely into the calm and peacefulness 

 of the immortal ! The fearful record which follows this chapter tells 

 its own story of woe and bereavement, and is published in this vol- 

 ume as a memorial of the brave men who thus went out from among 

 us, and over whose resting-places no monumental stone can ever be 

 placed as a tribute to their many virtues. 



As- their former comrades read the names of these lost fishermen, 

 many pleasant recollections of the old days, when they sailed with 

 them in some of the crafts, will be revived, and we doubt not that 

 these recollections will cause the tears to course down many a 

 weather-beaten face, as he softly repeats a prayer for peace to the 

 souls of those who have thus entered the beyond. 



