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eclipse is coming on, weald paint now the struggling 
rays through the thickened atmosphere. The de- 
scending mass of radiance which rather shews where 
light is, than what it is, looks shorn of its beams, 
through the horizontal misty sir, and brings on 
twilight. ‘The bordering plain between the seabord 
and inland-rauge of mountains fades into nothing, 
and the broad sky overhead, is shot over by straight 
lines of dark and faint tints, that touch frem the 
western to the eastern horizon. ‘ihe breeze-is still 
blustering ; it scarcely relaxes in force, but by the 
time it is dark and the stars are out, the vapours 
have dispersed, and the night is pretty clear and 
calm, and the southern cress very conspicuous. 
The new light- house shines like a meteor in the 
east. ‘The shore, though a mere sand bank forming 
what is called the palisades, slips at two yards off 
into ten fathoms of water. ‘There are no protrud- 
ing rocks: the danger in the long canal-hke entrance 
from the light house to the harbour, is in the islets 
and shoals outward, marked by great floating bea- 
cous, that give an awful announcement of danger 
in their ceaseless turmoil, and: movement up and 
down, looking like sea serpents swimming into har- 
bour. The big black and white buoy near the point, 
isa vivid picture of Commodore MacQuhae’s en- 
counter with the solitary living creature passing the 
Deedalus. By the assistance of the light house, ships. 
now safely enter Port Royal after night-fall. Many 
a time the rocket of the approaching steamer startles 
the eye, as the first intimation that the packet is 
coming in. A ship nolongernow approachestheshore 
