The South-West

iracy-Wall of Abaco-Natural Bridge-Cause-Night scene-Speak a packet ship-A floating

ly from the clouds, just as we had comfortably laid our

mbling over him, in the head-and-heels projection of our bodies up the companion-way, in our e

he weather bow," re

ere the eager exclamations and inquiries of the enraptured passengers, who, ha

small blue clouds, which, resting, apparently, on the sea, floated near the verge of the southern horizon. But with the spy glass, we could discern it

it appeared to our eyes in its autumnal gray coat, with all

lligator, which it resembled in shape. Sail after sail hove in sight as we coasted pleasantly along with a fine breeze, till, an hour before the sun went down, a large wide-spreading fleet could be discerned from the deck, lyin

claimed one of the passengers, whose gla

yes, detected a miserable hut, half hidden among the bushes, and so wild

habitation

nterest in our eyes. It was evidently the abode of some one of those demi sea-monsters, called "Wreckers," who, more destructive than the waves,

mons of the

ing amid the storm upon the foaming billows, will flash upon the eyes of the toiling seamen as they labour to preserve their vessel, striking their souls with dread and awakening their easily excited feelings of superstition. Like evil spirits awaiting at the bed-side t

struction, many vessels and preserve hundreds of valuable lives. The profession of these marauders would be, in such a case, but a sinecure; provided they would allow the lights to remain. But, unless each tower were converted into a well-manned gun-battery the piratical character of these men will preclude any hope of their permanent establishment. Men of their buccaneering habits

, around which we were sailing, is a high, wall-like ridge of rock, whose surface gradually inclines from the main body of the island to its abrupt termination about a quarter of a league into the sea. As we sailed along its eastern side we could not detect the

thirty feet from the sea than at its base. The water is of sufficient depth, and the arch lofty enough, to allow small fishing vessels to pass through the aperture, which is about one hundred feet in length through the solid rock. There is a gap which would indicate the former existence of a simi

gh it immense fissures, and loosens large fragments of the rock, that easily yield and give way to its increased violence; while the upper stratum, high beyond the reach of the surge,

tern horizon far ahead of us-ships, brigs, and schooners, stretching away under all sail before the evening breeze to the south and west. We had lost sight of them after night had set in, but at about half past eight in

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which towered gloomily in the obscurity of the night. The outline of the object was so confused and blended with the sky, that we could discern it but indistinctly. T

the tube of a spy-glass, signifies that it may be

nce the dark moving tower on the water before us, as we approached it rapidly, when we we

over the water from the

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company, but not always in sight of each

ma channel at the same time, and now, were amicably sailing in company, borne by the same waves-wafted by the same breeze, and standing toward the same point. Our New-York friend, for whom, on casting our eyes over the lively scene we first searched, we discovered nearly two leagues from us to th

by a long line at her stern, a little green whale-boat skipped and danced merrily over the waves. Standing, or rather reclining at the helm-for men learn strangely indolent postures in the warm south-with a segar between his lips, and his eye fixed earnestly upon the J. L., was a black-whiskered fellow, whose head was enveloped in a tri-coloured, conical cap, terminated by a tassel, which dangled over his left ear. A blue flannel shirt, and white flowing trowsers, with which his body and limbs were covered, were secured to his

hat?" inquired one of the

recker's lugger

in the direction of the New-York packet ship, which the wrecker's quicker and more practised eye had detected displaying signals of distress. Turning our glasses in the di

mile of a brig loaded with lumber. The remaining vessels of the fleet were fast dispersi

e to plough the earth instead of the ocean. Then, and not till then, will Maine take a high rank as an agricultural state. The majority of men who sail in these lumber vessels are both farmers and sailors; who cultivate their farm

lasses, which is converted by our "sober and moral" fellow-countrymen into liquid gunpowder, in the vats of th

water, appeared, though eighteen feet beneath us, within reach of the oar. But there were ma

us which, gaily dancing over the

n oar and courts

unk at the touch, and sunk beneath the surface; appearing beneath the water, like a little, animated globule tinged with the most delicate colours. This singular animal is termed by the sailors, "The Portuguee' man-

ck to bottom, when it 'gins to blow a spankin' breeze,

ed to the light breeze-barks delicate and tiny enough for fairy "Queen Mab." Termed by naturalists pharsalia, from its habit of inflating its transparent sail, this splendid animal is often confounded with the nautilus pompilius, a g

ing above into a semi-circular sail, which can be expanded or contracted to a considerable extent at the pleasure of the animal. From beneath the body are suspended from ten to fifty, or more little tubes, from half an inch to an inch in length, open at th

back of the hand, to secrete a poisonous or acrid fluid, the animal secures his prey." But in the opinion of Dr. C. naturalists in deciding upon this mere hypothesis have concluded too hastily. He says that the secret will be better explained by a more careful examination of the organ itself. "The cord is composed of a narrow layer of contractile fibres, scarcely visible when relaxed, on account of its transparency. If the animal b

y thing becomes impaled upon the cords, the contractile fibres are called into action, and rapidly shrink from many feet in length to

ommodated to the force of the breeze, and the elongated neck is curved upward, giving to the ani

inest print is not obscured when viewed through them. The back becomes gradually tinged as we ascend, with the finest and most delicate hues that can be imagined; the base of the sail equals the purest sky in depth and beauty of tint; the summit is of t