The Quarterly Review, Vol. 63: Published in January and March, 1839 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Sinopsis

Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 63: Published in January and March, 1839

Those who have traversed the Pacific, as well as the great Atlantic and Indian Oceans, have ever been accustomed to oh serve a small dark line or thread which every here and there per pendicularly connects the clouds with the waters. We need scarcely say that we allude to water-spouts, which, especially in fine weather, when suddenly summoned into existence, leave the human mind in doubt whether they are messengers descending to us fr'om heaven, or spirits rising from the vasty deep on which we sail. In addition to these symbols, whose antiquity ts coeval with creation, a modern hie lyphic has now become one of the well known characteristics olfogie ocean, and on almost every portion of the aqueous globe the appearance of a slight horizontal stain in the atmosphere designates, according to its colour and its form, that a steamer is or has been beneath it.

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