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College Musings.
COLLEGE MUSINGS .
THE STUDENT ' S DIARY , AND FARTHER RAMBLES TO ANCIENT 3 I 0 NA , OR ISLE OF MAN , IN SEARCH OP THE PICTURESQUE . { Continued from page W . ) CHAPTEI- VI . ON the 1 st of Julin the midsummer recess of 18—I sailed from
y , , the Port of Whitehaven at 9 o ' clock A . M . ( nautical style ) , in a trading schooner , the only description of vessel at that period by which visitors could reach the island from that part of the opposite coast . Having no purser or steward on board , and each passenger being obliged to victual himself , according to the maritime language , and being no adept in catering , I was ill provided with stores ; but I anticipated merely a few hours' sailingand the circumstance therefore did not give me very great
, uneasiness . The cabin complement consisted of two , besides myself , a lady and gentleman , who were very conversible , particularly the male , who proved a most facetious and cheerful companion , always reducing every thing to a figure , from which I conjectured he was a commercial character ; and dolefully regretting to me his neglect of a classical education when in conversation with our lady passenger . She decidedly claimed that rank by her superior deportment . From that pleasing
naive diction which the accomplished Irishwomen never relinquish , and which adds a peculiar charm to their always fascinating manners , I discovered that my fair compagnon du voyage was a daughter of Hibernia , and an officer ' s widow going on a visit to relations residing in the
land of our present destination . The passage across the channel was tedious and irksome to all of us , occupying , from contrary winds , the incredible space oi forty-eight hours ! There being no comfortable accommodation owing to the size and class of the vessel , this delay would have been totally insufferable , and to myself rather inconvenient on the scoie of provisions , had not the good spirits of the rest of the party rallied me , and their stock generously supplied what my inexperience had not furnished . We were tantalised by a sudden calm
, which obliged the master to cast anchor in sight of both coasts , but contrived , greatly to our relief and amusement , to disembark at early dawn , about 4 o ' clock A . M ., in Saxy Bay , a sweetly romantic estuary . The dilatory tedium of the passage , and the peculiar inconveniences of our bark , had been the means of introducing such sociability into our narrow circle , that it pained me to anticipate the hour of separation . We made an exchange of cards , and any unconcerned spectator would
have imagined from the manner in which we took leave of one another , that our acquaintance had existed for years instead of hours . M y fair friend very politely invited me when 1 came to Peel Town to take her uncle ' s retirement in my route , which 1 very readily promised to do . Not being able to procure any comfortable conveyance , I walked with my fellow-passenger , whose facetious humour had been a great source of amusement on board ship , and whom I subsequently dubbed , from his portly habit , Sir John Falstaff , to Douglas Town , five miles , no ordinary labour to the knight under a July ' s morning sun . In spite of the nauseating sickness produced by the sce-saw motion of our lazy
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College Musings.
COLLEGE MUSINGS .
THE STUDENT ' S DIARY , AND FARTHER RAMBLES TO ANCIENT 3 I 0 NA , OR ISLE OF MAN , IN SEARCH OP THE PICTURESQUE . { Continued from page W . ) CHAPTEI- VI . ON the 1 st of Julin the midsummer recess of 18—I sailed from
y , , the Port of Whitehaven at 9 o ' clock A . M . ( nautical style ) , in a trading schooner , the only description of vessel at that period by which visitors could reach the island from that part of the opposite coast . Having no purser or steward on board , and each passenger being obliged to victual himself , according to the maritime language , and being no adept in catering , I was ill provided with stores ; but I anticipated merely a few hours' sailingand the circumstance therefore did not give me very great
, uneasiness . The cabin complement consisted of two , besides myself , a lady and gentleman , who were very conversible , particularly the male , who proved a most facetious and cheerful companion , always reducing every thing to a figure , from which I conjectured he was a commercial character ; and dolefully regretting to me his neglect of a classical education when in conversation with our lady passenger . She decidedly claimed that rank by her superior deportment . From that pleasing
naive diction which the accomplished Irishwomen never relinquish , and which adds a peculiar charm to their always fascinating manners , I discovered that my fair compagnon du voyage was a daughter of Hibernia , and an officer ' s widow going on a visit to relations residing in the
land of our present destination . The passage across the channel was tedious and irksome to all of us , occupying , from contrary winds , the incredible space oi forty-eight hours ! There being no comfortable accommodation owing to the size and class of the vessel , this delay would have been totally insufferable , and to myself rather inconvenient on the scoie of provisions , had not the good spirits of the rest of the party rallied me , and their stock generously supplied what my inexperience had not furnished . We were tantalised by a sudden calm
, which obliged the master to cast anchor in sight of both coasts , but contrived , greatly to our relief and amusement , to disembark at early dawn , about 4 o ' clock A . M ., in Saxy Bay , a sweetly romantic estuary . The dilatory tedium of the passage , and the peculiar inconveniences of our bark , had been the means of introducing such sociability into our narrow circle , that it pained me to anticipate the hour of separation . We made an exchange of cards , and any unconcerned spectator would
have imagined from the manner in which we took leave of one another , that our acquaintance had existed for years instead of hours . M y fair friend very politely invited me when 1 came to Peel Town to take her uncle ' s retirement in my route , which 1 very readily promised to do . Not being able to procure any comfortable conveyance , I walked with my fellow-passenger , whose facetious humour had been a great source of amusement on board ship , and whom I subsequently dubbed , from his portly habit , Sir John Falstaff , to Douglas Town , five miles , no ordinary labour to the knight under a July ' s morning sun . In spite of the nauseating sickness produced by the sce-saw motion of our lazy