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Recollections of Europe, by J. Fenimore Cooper
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Title: Recollections of Europe
Author: J. Fenimore Cooper
Release Date: November 30, 2006 [EBook #19983]
Language: English
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COLLECTION OF ANCIENT AND MODERN BRITISH AUTHORS.
VOL. CLXXII.
RECOLLECTIONS OF EUROPE.
PRINTED BY J. SMITH, 16, RUE MONTMORENCY.
RECOLLECTIONS OF EUROPE.
BY J. FENIMORE COOPER, ESQ.
AUTHOR OF "THE PILOT," "THE SPY", etc.
PARIS, BAUDRY'S EUROPEAN LIBRARY, RUE DU COQ, NEAR THE LOUVRE.
1837.
CONTENTS.
LETTER I.
Our Embarkation.--Leave-taking.--Our Abigail.--Bay of New York.--The Hudson.--Ominous Prediction.--The Prophet falsified.--Enter the Atlantic.--"Land-birds."--Our Master.--Officers of Packet-ships.--Loss of "The Crisis."--The "Three Chimneys."--Calamities at Sea. --Sailing-match.--View of the Eddystone.--The Don Quixote.--Comparative Sailing.--Pilot-boats.--Coast of Dorsetshire.--The Needles. --Lymington.--Southampton Water.--The C