The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 337
could discover anything that could give me hopes.When I gazed towards the sea I could see noth-ing but sky and water ; but looking over the landI beheld something white ; and coming down, Itook what provision I had left, and went towardsit, the distance being so great that I could not dis-tinguish… … be very smooth.I went round toif it Avas open on anyside, but saw it was not, andthat there was no climbingup to tile toj), as it was sosmooth. It was at least fiftypaces round. By this time the sun wasabout to set, and all of asudden the sky became asdark as if it had been coveredwith a thick…
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