COIL II. 
“ The Ocean scarce spoke louder with his swell, 
Than breathes his mimic murmurer in the shell.” 
Byron, The Island , Canto II. 
“ Strange things come up to look at us, 
The masters of the deep.” 
Song, The Return of the Admiral. 
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Peter Dass’s Description of Norland, A. D. 1749.* 
I. 
The stars on the tranquil sea are beaming ; — 
each brilliant seems set in the depths below, 
as you lean o’er the taffrail, idly dreaming that 
the firmament shines where the billows glow. 
ii. 
So silent the night, so calm, so fair, so easy 
the yacht through the ocean swung, that you 
