As we looked off, and saw the water growing darker and darker and deeper and deeper the farther we looked, till it was awful to co...nsider,... I felt that I was a land animal.... I could then appreciate the heroism of the old navigator, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, of whom it is related, that being overtaken by a storm when on his return from America, in the year 1583, far northeastward from where we were, sitting abaft with a book in his hand, just before he was swallowed up in the deep, he cried out to his comrades in the Hind, as they came within hearing, "We are as near to Heaven by sea as by land." I saw that it would not be easy to realize.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »