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should feel much better, provided they were in- 

 dulged with a glass of whiskey each. Accordingly I 

 ordered him to serve out the desired quantity; and 

 I certainly think it had a wonderful effect. They 

 had been pulling a long time and began to show 

 symptoms of fatigue ; the spirit seemed to infuse 

 fresh yigour into them ; they changed their style of 

 pulling from the short dabble to the long stroke, 

 and we were quickly out of the voe into the West- 

 ern Ocean. The weather for some time had been 

 remarkably fine, and as the wind was blowing off 

 the land, the Atlantic was as smooth as oil, and 

 its glassy surface unbroken even by a ripple \ but 

 there was the constantly rolling swell peculiar to 

 that sea, not so heavy however as to make a pas- 

 s-age in a boat disagreeable. 



The scene which here presented itself was truly 

 beautiful, and requires a master-mind to do it jus- 

 tice. In front of the voe we came in sight of 

 three high rocks ,* they are very small, and stand off 

 llswickness in the sea^ and viewed from where 

 they first came in sight, to us they were like a 

 schooner under sail, but as we drew nearer to 

 them they gradually changed into a three-mastery 

 they are very high, and I believe of granite forma- 

 tion. Behind us were the high mountains and rocky 

 cliffs of the mainland : the tops of the mountains 



