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My garden was become a wilderness of roses in the soft spring weather, too, and each flower took a warmer hue as the sun sank in the west, and slowly neared the point where it would drop behind the European foreland. The kiosk was a wooden building, narrow and tall, so that the rooms within were high, and the second story was twenty feet above the ground.
"If the wind falls, and the sea goes down, we may perhaps manage to keep the leaks under; but if I were the captain I would run for Harwich or the Thames sooner than attempt to thrash the vessel round the Foreland." "Why don't you propose that to him, and if he does not agree, just steer as you think best?" I said. "I suspect that he would not find out in what direction we were standing."
As evening approached the breeze sprang up again and freshened. Then it chopped round to the east, and when night fell it began to blow hard right in the teeth of the little vessel. Bax was a good and a bold seaman. He knew the coast well, and hoped, in due course, to double the North Foreland, and find shelter in the Downs.
In that ill-written, ragged book, "The Pirate," the figure of Cleveland cast up by the sea on the resounding foreland of Dunrossness moving, with the blood on his hands and the Spanish words on his tongue, among the simple islanders singing a serenade under the window of his Shetland mistress is conceived in the very highest manner of romantic invention.
In my fancy I already saw the heather-crowned summits of the Highland hills, bathed in soft climbing mists of amethyst and rose, the lovely purple light that dances on the mountain lochs at the sinking of the sun, the exquisite beauty of wild moor and rocky foreland, and almost I was disposed to think this antipathetic millionaire an angel of blessing in disguise. "It will be delightful!"
The following feats have been recorded as accomplished during the year 1911: William T. Burgess, of Yorkshire, England, crossed the English Channel from South Foreland, Dover, England, to La Chatelet, two miles east of Cape Gris Nez, France. Burgess started at 11.15 A.M., September 5, and finished at 9.50 A.M., September 6. Time, 22 hours 35 minutes. The distance is 40 miles.
At noon on the following day the forty-two ships were within a few miles of the North Foreland of Kent. The cliffs stood out white as snow against the gray autumn sky, and where the line of the headland dipped the grassy slopes of a fertile valley could be seen dotted over with browsing sheep.
I did my duty on our passage home as a seaman before the mast, and the captain was pleased with me. The ship I was in was bound to Glasgow, and we parted company with the convoy at North Foreland, and arrived safe in port.
But he only sank to his fetlocks in the dry sand, piled with pop-weed: and I tried to make him face the waves; and then I looked about me. "Watchett town was not to be seen, on account of a little foreland, a mile or more upon my course, and standing to the right of me.
The gale was blowing up then; but as it looked as if it was coming from the north-east we did not care about riding it out in the Downs, or going back so as to be under shelter of the South Foreland. "It did not come on really heavy till we were nearly off Margate, and then we got it with a vengeance. Still, as the wind was free, we kept on.
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