The pilot: a tale of the sea. By J. Fenimore Cooper.

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vot." }the st(, "- against t thC seta h it t)egins to0
heavet in btut you'r lih^it sails will hItip tel em to
0t C tyoul out. SO 1t1U8n, as VoIt can 11cad east-aiitd1.yt north, you are, oingout' a Ytt ayoul cant stanil
on till yott open tih lieghlt firom that )northe tn
Ieadlani, whcen y1ou ca0 { c1.ave to, a(nd fire!ir t; but it, as I drc0ad(, you are stru-ck aback.
i:O;fobre you open the lii{hlt, you may trust to youx
a itd o thI1 lrt)otrd t ack.; but bitware, wvitht your
h}tad to tle soth St arllt l, tir no lead will seirve you
there."
< I. ctlan vtalk ove'r th e sattt1e`round rotl n1 o0ne t(ack
as on tile othser,' said t13arn:tailt ltl, t 11111(0 1)01 I
flos of a1 tilIgth."'
"it will not (do,"'etor" tt tle 11 t)ito. 1 if y t ou
fiall i(tl a poitt to starl)oAl'rd firomn east-a_ td-l)-t lorti
ittl oi0 q latO!?, you will find both l rocks antl points
of' Shoals to b)ritng you upt; and Ib eware, as I tell
yo)u, of' the( start'botard tack.'"'" And how $s1}all I find ty way? you will let
tme rt'st. to neitlrt' ti:ne:, lead, nor lo..
" You ust trust to a q 1ui ik eye and a ready
handt. The bretakers only iI llhow'yout the dlatn
etrcs, when you 111e not a}h)l to make out the tbearings) of' tim land.'1 aek in season, sir, a1(d dion't
sjawre the lead, whel'n you hetad to-port.'
" A.v, IX,., returned Btartnsablt e in a low, mtit,
68-11< voicte. "''!llis is asort of' lin(ttl niavigatiotl
withl a vcttat'1te, n ti ttand all ( It lto:)1t1t1 )St that I cal
see-.-.. see idaltte, ey:si:ght is of about as imutie1
u1se now, as iza 1ll0'S nosie wouhld he in reading the
Blible."
" Stoftly, softtly, Atr. Ianstable," inter'rupted *his
eonStnaidert, fior such was the anxious stillness in
both vess els that even ttlilhe of at o the sfehooln.
er's rggin,;il w'as heardl, as shle rolled in the ttougl
of the oat —' the dt]ty on which Congress bas