completed the twenty-fourth course, reckoning above the first entire one, and the twenty-sixth abov...
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weather having greatly moderated, Captain Taylor, who now commanded the SMEATON, sailed at two o'cl...
the agitation of the sea. The writer, in particular, felt himself almost as much fatigued and worn-...
Songs of Travel and Other Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson CONTENTS I. THE VAGABOND - Give to me ...
with the building artificers in bringing materials faster to the rock than they could be built. The...
Let Beauty awake in the eve from the slumber of day, Awake in the crimson eve! In the day's dusk e...
Since then my steps have visited that flood Along whose shore the numerous footfalls cease, The vo...
laid upon the building had been partially lifted from their beds by the force of the sea, and were ...
[Monday, 7th Sept.] This morning, about eight o'clock, the writer was agreeably surprised to see t...
top of the building, three cheers were given in testimony of this important circumstance. A glass o...
required a considerable degree of trouble to get their upper ends to fit. Here they formed the apex...
II - OPERATIONS OF 1808 [Monday, 29th Feb.] The writer sailed from Arbroath at one a.m. in the Li...
a.m. [Monday, 30th May] Mr. Francis Watt commenced, with five joiners, to fit up a temporary plat...
workmen became much more cautious, and on some occasions their timidity was rather troublesome. It ...
Soon after the artificers landed they commenced work; but the wind coming to blow hard, the SMEATON...