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ger. Meaning to make him a call^ I looked out the next 
morning, and lo 1 he had run over to “ the Pines ” the 
evening before, fearing an easterly storm. He outrode 
the great gale in the spring of 1851, dashing about alone 
in Plymouth Bay. He goes after rockweed, Kghters 
vessels, and saves wrecks. I still saw him lying in the 
mud over at “ the Pines ” in the horizon, which place he 
could not leave if he would, till flood tide. But he 
would not then probably. This waiting for the tide is a 
singular feature in life by the sea-shore. A frequent 
answer is, Well! you can’t start for two hours yet.” It 
is something new to a landsman, and at first he is not 
disposed to wait. History says that “ two inhabitants 
of Truro were the first who adventured to the Falkland 
Isles in pursuit of whales. This voyage was undertaken 
in the year 1774, by the advice of Admiral Montague 
of the British navy, and was crowned with success.” 
At the Pond Village we saw a pond three eighths of 
a mile long densely filled with cat-tail flags, seven feet 
high, — enough for all the coopers in New England. 
The western shore was nearly as sandy as the eastern, 
but the water was much smoother, and the bottom was 
partially covered with the slender grass-like sea-weed 
{Zosterd)^ which we had not seen on the Atlantic side ; 
there were also a few rude sheds for trying fish on the 
beach there, which made it appear less wild. In the few 
marshes on this side we afterward saw Samphire, Rose¬ 
mary, and other plants new to us inlanders. 
In the summer and fall sometimes, hundreds of black- 
fish (the Social Whale, Globicephalus melas of He Kay ; 
called also Black Whale-fish, Howling Whale, Bottle- 
head, &c.), fifteen feet or more in length, are driven 
ashore in a single school here. I witnessed such a scene 
