Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 47

    towering on almost, as it seemed at night indistinct, in
    the clouds. The sea as he/she anchors as a lake of hinterland it was;  the light
    the work-wind was softly and firmly that it breathes from to stern;  the
    dark-blue sky was adorned of studs with the tropical stars;  there was anybody
    sounds but the to ripple some water under the stem;  and the
    sails were shed out wide and tall--the two lowers
    to adorn of stud-sails that extend on both side well over the bridge;
    to adorn her of stud-sails taller as you haul to the sails of cage;  the
    to adorn of stud-sails of topgallant that scatter out fearlessly above of them;
    even more tall the two to adorn of real stud-sails seeming two,
    kites that fly from the same sequence;  and taller than all the small
    sky-sail, the apex of the pyramid that seems indeed to touch the
    stars and being out of course of human hand. Quiet was therefore also,
    the sea, and so it consolidates the breeze that if these sails had been
    graven marble they could not be more immovable properties--not
    a ripple on the surface of the cloth;  not also a waving of
    the extreme edges of the sail, were so perfectly them they dilated
    from the breeze. I was lost so in the sight that I have forgotten the
    presence of the man that went out with me, until him it said (for him,
    the man of old raw man-of-war that he was, was looking also, fixed to
    the show), mean to him, still looking at the marmoreal sails:
    'As quietly they does their job!'"

The building of ships of packet started in 1814, when of the semblance of the peace
and order appeared on the ocean, and it continued up to almost the duration of
the Civil War, when steamboats had already started to cut away the business
of the old packets, and some Confederate cruisers were not had need to
you complete the job. But in their day these were the great examples of sea
architecture. The before the American transatlantic lines was the Black
Line of ball, so he/she called from the black sphere on the white flag that his