Land and Lee in the Bosphorus and Ægean; Or, Views of Athens and Constantinople

The author says of the original pages, that "They were written amid the ceaseless noise and systematized confusion which prevail on board a man-of-war; the lively conversation of the ward-room officers in one ear, the prattle of the pantry boys in the other; the echoing tread of sailors overhead; on a table lashed down to prevent its being capsized, in a chair secured with laniards against the force of the ship's lurch, and with the manuscript tacked to its place to escape the fate which befell the Sibylline leaves. This is no fancy picture; any one who has been at sea, and especially they who have traversed the ocean in an armed ship, can attest the sobriety of the sketch, and also appreciate the embarrassments which such a situation imposes.

"The more serious reader, who may have taken exception to some of the harmless pleasantries of "Ship and Shore," will find, perhaps, in these pages less cause of regret. But should he meet occasionally with sentences betraying some of those lighter and less regular pulsations which will, now and then, visit the heart, he must not be offended. The only real difference between us, probably, is, that I give expression to feelings which he, more discreetly, perhaps, allows to pass off in silence.

"Religion is not with me-and it ought not to be with any one-a source of gloom; it is not a great funeral pall, spread out over nature, wrapping the fragrant flowers, hushing the melodious fountains, and shutting out the bright influences of heaven; it is, itself, an exhaustless source of cheering,

all-pervading light-warming and beautifying the earth— visiting man in his most obscure abode-reaching the darkest recesses of his doubts and dismay-relieving his caressanctifying his sorrows-dispelling the despondency which the brevity of his existence here casts around him, and inspiring hopes over which death and the grave have no power."

The publishers take pleasure in now presenting this volume to the public, as being worthy of the reputation of its author, and an acceptable offering to his numerous friends in the navy and elsewhere. They are happy to announce that another volume is in progress, to be entitled "The Sea and the Sailor, Notes on France and Italy and other Sketches of Rev. Walter Colton, together with a Memoir illustrating his Life and Character.”

H. T. C.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Smyrna and the Constellation-Condition on Board an

English Yacht-Storm off Metelin-Loss of Spars and

Provisions-Tenedos and the Strand of Ilium-Beat-

ing up the Dardanelles-Scenery, Towns, and Fortifica-

tions of the Shore-Passage of Leander and Xerxes-

Pliny's Aerolite-Sea of Marmora-First View of Con-

stantinople - Apprehensions on Landing-A Night

Scene

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