The British Seas: Picturesque Notes
The British Seas: Picturesque Notes
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Ailsa Craig and the Bass Rock, the Haddington and Berwick coasts, are other equally fine examples of the action of the vast universal force of marine denudation.
In the deep seas here you may pretty suddenly fall upon the finest sea-sight at night — that is, a great fleet of fishing-boats riding at their nets, with their globe-shaped lights, mast-high, breaking the dark- ness at curiously regular intervals. Herring-boats are the swallows of the deep, proclaiming summer is at hand, and they spee...d like the birds over the waves.
You pass them as you approach the great fishing coast of Caithness and the harbour of Wick, with its forest of masts, its ancient and fish-like smells, its sea-wealth in the large curing stations. The traffic of the sea from Shetland to here, and for hundreds of miles down the coast, is maintained almost entirely by these homely, smart herring-boats ; the clean "" 5 > ;'>•". •i.-vl.
, ;ti- ? r#£ Pl% 'V-x' The Northern Shores. 1 99 sailing-boats keep continually crossing — you cannot get out of their sight — and their brown sails and homely rigging and modest decks become likeable, associated as they are with great labouring lives, bold enterprise, sudden risks of rise and fall in markets, hopes and fears of wives and little ones on land, losses from calms and from storms, from failures of fishing and from failures arising from excessive productive fishing.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Ailsa Craig and the Bass Rock, the Haddington and Berwick coasts, are other equally fine examples of the action of the vast universal force of marine denudation.
In the deep seas here you may pretty suddenly fall upon the finest sea-sight at night — that is, a great fleet of fishing-boats riding at their nets, with their globe-shaped lights, mast-high, breaking the dark- ness at curiously regular intervals. Herring-boats are the swallows of the deep, proclaiming summer is at hand, and they spee...d like the birds over the waves.
You pass them as you approach the great fishing coast of Caithness and the harbour of Wick, with its forest of masts, its ancient and fish-like smells, its sea-wealth in the large curing stations. The traffic of the sea from Shetland to here, and for hundreds of miles down the coast, is maintained almost entirely by these homely, smart herring-boats ; the clean "" 5 > ;'>•". •i.-vl.
, ;ti- ? r#£ Pl% 'V-x' The Northern Shores. 1 99 sailing-boats keep continually crossing — you cannot get out of their sight — and their brown sails and homely rigging and modest decks become likeable, associated as they are with great labouring lives, bold enterprise, sudden risks of rise and fall in markets, hopes and fears of wives and little ones on land, losses from calms and from storms, from failures of fishing and from failures arising from excessive productive fishing.
What to read after The British Seas: Picturesque Notes?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Russell, William Clark, 1844-1911 to read onlineMoreLess
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