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of Antigua on Sunday next, but that is now quite 

 out of the question. We made but eight miles in 

 the whole of yesterday ; and as Jamaica is still at 

 the distance of eighteen hundred miles, at this rate 

 of proceeding we may expect to reach it about 

 eight months hence. The sky this evening pre- 

 sented us with quite a new phenomenon, a rose- 

 coloured moon : she is to be at her full to-morrow ; 

 and this afternoon, about half-past four, she rose 

 like a disk of silver, perfectly white and colourless ; 

 but, as she was exactly opposite to the sun at the 

 time of his setting, the reflection of his rays spread 

 a kind of pale blush over her orb, which produced 

 an effect as beautiful as singular. Indeed, the size 

 and inconceivable brilliance of the sun, the clear- 

 ness of the atmosphere, which had assumed a faint 

 greenish hue, and was entirely without a cloud, 

 the smoothness of the ocean, and the aforesaid 

 rose-coloured moon, altogether rendered this sun- 

 set the most magical in effect that I ever beheld; and 

 it was with great reluctance that I was called away 

 from admiring it, to ascertain whether the merits 

 of our new acquaintance, the dolphin, extended 

 any further than his skin. Part of him, which was 

 boiled for yesterday's dinner, was rather coarse 

 and dry, and might have been mistaken for in- 

 different haddock. But his having been steeped 

 in brine, and then broiled with a good deal of 

 pepper and salt, had improved him wonderfully ; 

 and to-day I thought him as good as any other fish. 



