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in that respect only caused fun for my
companions.

We ran through Yarmouth roads and
stood for the North with fair and pleasant weather,
for all night, when a calm came on and continued
for many hours the sea was as smooth as glass.
We had numerous of the duck tribe round us, some
with their brood of young with them, and so small
that they appeared to have only just left the shell,
but we were in sight of land and they would doubtless
find shelter among the rocks and boulders by the shore,
and they were already as cunning as their mothers in diving
when anything was thrown at them. We had light
breezes and calm all the way, and at times the sea
was full of that truly singular animal of the Medusae
family commonly called the Jelly fish, they floated along
with the tide in a very stately manner with their long
arms or feelers hanging down, but when any attempt
to capture them was made unless the operation was very
dexterous, they took the alarm very soon and quietly
receded from the surface, and sunk out of sight.
They were of all dimensions from a foot to a few
inches in diameter, of beautiful colours and so numerous
that the ship almost seemed to float in living jelly.*

As we drew near the mouth of the Tyne river we
hove overboard some of our ballast to spare the
expense of working it out when in the river, we went
over the bar with a fair wind, got out the remainder
of the ballast in the usual manner and were

*In the Geological Museum of Dresden there are some fossil Medusae!

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