Most of these sketches are, by the courtesy of the proprietors, reprinted from the _Spectator_; the others have appeared in various magazines--the _Cornhill_, _Good Words_, _Sunday Magazine_, _Chambers’s Journal_, _Country Life_, _National Review_, and _Pall Mall Gazette_. To the proprietors of all these journals my hearty thanks for their kind permission to republish are hereby offered. In these little sketches of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquaintance with it, I have tried with ’prentice hand to reproduce for shore-dwellers some of the things it has told me. If I were to stop and consider what other men, freeholders upo…
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