Malcolm, James Peller: First Impressions Or Sketches from Art and Nature, Animate and Inanimate (London, 1807)

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ing at some other object, for ten minutes os
more, and then recurring again to her. Admiral
Hartsinck's fleet, bound to Batavia, were the
vesfels that thus riveted my attention. The air
was perfectly clear, and the Sun shone full on
their fresh-painted sides and white sails. Some of
them were 74-gun ships, and vet, compared
with the expanfe around them, they shrunk into
mere miniatures of vesfels ; a perfect refemblance,
reduced by distance to a few inches in length.
How totally lost in air were the crews ! The
cnterprizing sailors that governed them shrunk
into invinbility; and the same cause operating on
the masfy towers of Calais, reduces them to points
that tremble on the eye, and vanish when that
noble oman dwells too long uoon them. The
reader will find those points on the left margin
of the plate.

shaksseare's cxiff.
This abrupt precipice crumbles by degrees into
the Channel. That the reader may perceive my
observation is just, he will find it represented in
profile, with a considerable declination from the
sea, with strong marks of recent ruin on the
outline, and at the base a few frag-ments on the
narrow beach. When our immortal bard first
attracted