The mind loves to hover on that which is endless, and forever the same. People wonder at a steam-boat, the invention of man, managed by man, that makes its liquid path like an iron railway through the sea—I wonder at the sea itself, that vast Leviathan, rolled round the earth.
Another heavy sea broke into the ship and stove all the boats. Several casks of bear, that had been lashed upon deck...
was not without great difficulty and risk that we were able to secure the boats from being washed .....
