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thick warm pilot-coat an acceptable addition to my 

 comfort. 



Many a guillemot and puffin enlivened the expanse 

 of waters, as we conversed on many a gleeful topic, or 

 chanted a wild stanza to the winds. As we approached 

 the harbour I killed a couple of kittiwake gulls, t<> 

 finish the bag; and as we entered the bay every 

 feature of the ambient landscape was bathed in a flush 

 of many-coloured light, radiating on the limpid water 

 with a dazzling reflection, like a sheet of burnish* -d 

 gold: 



*' The western wave was all a-flame, 



The day was well nigh done ! 

 Almost upon the western wave 

 Rested the broad bright sun." 



The Ancii-nt Mariner. 



