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VOYAGE OF, THE POTOMAC. 
[February, 
ference ; but that was impossible. Other places in the east were 
to be visited, and the wide Pacific was to be crossed, ere the 
Potomac could reach the place of her original destination ; so 
that on the morning of the eighteenth of February, the word was 
given to get under way. 
" The anchor upheaves, the sails unfurl, 
The pennons of silk in the breezes curl ; 
And the crest of the billows before her flung." _ 
