Excerpt from The Lenore: A Maritime Chronicle Boston and 1857, and a crowd gathered on India Wharf. There is a downy mist of New England autumn in the air through which the chimes Of North Church come pealing a lively melody, until you seem to see the golden notes petal down, like flakes in Danzig punch. All eyes are upon her as she tacks past Governor's a great Ship like a doming cloud, skysails and stu'n'sails set before a stiff northeaster, the Stars and Stripes apeak. Soundless, as she wafts shorewards, She strikes Skysails and royals, fleet as a gull sheathes wing. Backed topsails, now, until her way is checked; and superbly, as she had made her outer landfall and stood in past Boston Light, She makes her flying moor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.