city-navigators

Updated: July 11, 2025

Strictly speaking, this old man of our part of the sea was not the captain of the boat, but the pilot, who takes command of her when she abandons her proper line on the rivers, and ventures to that "far Cathay" of city-navigators indefinitely spoken of as "outside the Hook."

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861