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Rh reduced from forty miles in length to twenty, and that of three lighthouses built on it since 1880, two have been washed away and the third will soon he engulfed.

"'Good evening, sir.'"

On the evening of July 5 the Spray, after having steered all day over a lumpy sea, took it into her head to go without the helmsman's aid. I had been steering southeast by south, but the wind hauling forward a bit, she dropped into a smooth