A Daring Voyage Across the Atlantic Ocean, by Two Americans, the Brothers Andrews. the Log of the Voyage, with Intr. and Notes by Dr. Macaulay

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...job, but we declined. More fog and rain as usual. The Italian brig took a pilot and went to the N.W. of Scilly; we try to make the Lizard on the S.E. side. A very strong current is trying to carry us towards the islands, but with a fresh breeze from the north we object. Tuesday, July 2,0th.--Make Runnelstone Head at daylight; wind N.E. Thou art so near and yet so far. Spoke pilot-boat Norman, of Falmouth. Wind died out, and we drifted out of sight of land. Air murky. Spoke two more pilot-boats. Make the land again near Penzance. Speak with some fishing-boats in regard to fish. Wednesday, July 31st.--Made the Lizard Point at daylight, and stand out into the great race off the point. Wind E., and a spring tide; and this is the first time this voyage that I have been really surprised. Made up my mind that I knew but little about the English Channel, and did not want to know any more just now; but the Nautilus was good for it, and came out in two hours all right. Spoke schooner Ierne, Capain Hooper, bound from Falmouth to Liverpool; he gave us a loaf of soft tack, and a can of corned beef; also some good advice in regard to Channel navigation. Many thanks. We then sailed down the iron-bound coast of old Cornwall, the scene of hundreds of wrecks, not one of which ever got off; the place where in bygone days vessels were lured to destruction by means of false beaconlights during storms; the cradle and hot-bed for smugglers and pirates; the home of Jack the Giant Killer; and a better abode for giants, seen as I now see it, could not be imagined. Bleak and desolate, with numerous caves--well, I will not undertake to describe the first land I made, or the Land's End; and I confess I had my mind occupied; and whether the old habits did not show...