Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland; historical, traditionary, & imaginative, with a glossary Volume 9 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... the south of the Isle of Man. During the whole of the previous night, she had been borne steadily southward, by a light breeze from off the fast receding island; but it had sunk as the sun rose, and she was now heaving slowly to the swell, which still continued to roll onward, in long glassy ridges from the north. A thick fog had risen as the wind fell--one of those low soa fogs which, leaving the central heavens comparatively clear, hangs its dense, impervious volumes around the horizon; and the little ve'ssel lay as if imprisoned within a circular wall of darkness, while the sun, reddened by the Laze, looked down cheerily upon her from above. She was a small and very rudelooking vessel, furnished with two lug-otuU of dark brown, much in the manner of a modern Dutch lugger; with a poop and forecastle singularly high, compared with her height in the waist; and with sides which, attaining their full breadth scarcely a foot over the water, sloped abruptly inwards, towards the deck, like the wall of a male or pier. The parapet-like bulwarks of both poop and forecastle were cut into deep embrasures, and ran, like those of a tower, all around the areas they 0"-Vol v. i.. 307 closed, looking down nearly as loftily ou the midships as on the water. The sides were black as pitch could render them--the sails scarcely less dark; but, as if to shew man's love of the ornamental in even the rudest stage of art, a huge misshapen lion flared in vermillion on the prow, and over the stern hung the blue flag of Scotland, with the silver cross of St Andrew stretching from corner tos corner. From eight to ten seamen lounged about the decks. They were uncouth-looking men, heavily attired in jerkins and caps of blue woollen, with long, thick beards, and...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1153907291
- ISBN 13 9781153907293
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages174
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