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Title: A voyage round the world, and visits to various foreign countries, in the United States frigate Columbia ..
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Taylor, Fitch W. (Fitch Waterman), 1803-1865
Subjects: Columbia (Frigate) Voyages around the world
Publisher: New Haven, H. Mansfield New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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raging; but the clouds above itsdark bosom rest peacefully in their hundred evening hues,which the sun, in atonement for his days absence, nowloans to these airy voyagers. But, it was as we tacked ships, to stand off from theland, amid this exhibition of the mystic in our north, andbeauty in our west, that an omen gleamed above us, fairand bright as the one which shone in the heavens, on theeve of our departure from our first anchorage-ground, inour western land. Directly above our main, in the zenithof his glory, The bright Arcturus, fairest of the stars, looked benignantly from out his azure hall upon us. Thesky, over our heads, was blue, deep, and clear; and noother brilliant was seen in the high heavens ; while themoon, in her path of peerless loveliness, this night, wasthrowing the soft beams of her first quarter over ourright shoulders. The air was balmy to the cheek ; andwe were happy as we paced the deck, and talked ofthings associated with the Madeiras, and friends, andhome.
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A VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD. 35 SECTION III. Madeira. Funchal, capital of Madeira. Quintas. Fortresses. SantaClara convent. Shrubbery and vines. Olden associations. The influ-ence of beautiful nature. Visit to the shore. Breakfast with the Amer.ican Consul. Invitation to visit Santa Clara convent. Ride to the Nos-sa Senhora do Monte, or the Church of our Lady of the Mount. VisitMr. Blandys Quinta. Avenues of geraniums and roses. View fromthe terrace-house. Miracles of our Lady of the Mount. Portugueseseamen pledge their top-sail to this patron saint to propitiate her favor indanger. Priest and his present of eggs. The Catholic system. A pileof human bones. Portuguese bury in their churches. New cemetery.Visit to Santa Clara convent. English burial ground. Portuguese fune-ral. The daughter of the deceased visiting England. Ride to the Cur-ral. Scenes on the road. Peasantry. The grounds of Count Carvalhal.Ramble through the grounds of Palmyra. Mr. and Miss O. Miss O.sopinion of Abbots Wor

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