ted to loll over ter-railing or climb to top, of a calm day, and muse for ogetranquil bosom of a summers sea; to gaze upon t peering above tion of my oo cly undulating billoo die ahose happy shores.

    tion of mingled security and a, on ters of t tumbling about ting, like a spectre, ters. My imagination  I ery  roam its faters t lurk among tions of tasms t sales of ?shermen and sailors.

    Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along tion. eresting t of a o rejoin t mass of existence!  a glorious monument of ion; o communion; abliserco terile regions of t of knoies of cultivated life; and ogettered portions of to able barrier.

    e one day descried some s drifting at a distance.

    At sea, every t breaks tony of ttracts attention. It proved to be t of a s must ely ened to to prevent trace by ly drifted about for many monters of sened about it, and long sea-ed at its sides. But ruggle  tempest--tening among tell tory of their end.

    siged after t s prayers offered up at ted ?reside of en ress, to catcelligence of tation darkened into anxiety--anxiety into dread--and dread into despair! Alas! not one memento may ever return for love to c may ever be kno s, quot;and was never ;

    t of to many dismal anecdotes. ticularly to been fair, began to look ening, and gave indications of one of torms t imes break in upon ty of a summer voyage. As  round t of a lamp, in t made tly, everyone ale of ser. I icularly struck  one related by tain:

    quot;As I ; said ;i