APPENDIX. 
Water and Water Navigation. 
HAVE not eroded the ocean as many times 
as Captain Lott, but I have been over it 
often enough to appreciate its majedy and 
its beauty, its grandeur and the terror of 
its perils; and by a long and often repeated experience 
of it in all its moods, to realize by fympathy the feelings 
of thofe who perifh amid the feething of its raging billows. 
And I remember the ill-fated cc Preddent,” the day 
that fhe failed from New York, on the nth March, 
1841. We failed out together. I in the “ Charlemagne,” 
bound for New Orleans. And a pang of difappointment 
paITed through my heart, and I complained in my foul at 
the ways of Providence as I looked upon the beautiful 
deamer gaily decked in dreaming colours, and I longed 
by one leap to be on her and away to the grand old world 
(he was bound to. Yes, I murmured. 
