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 VOYAGE OF TUE AKMADA. 307 CHAPTER XX. We have seen that Marshal St Ainaiid, under chap. feelings of some vexation, put to sea on the morn- ing of the 5th of September. He could not but know that, by his abrupt separation from the British fleet and army, he had offended against the English General. Upon reflection, he could not but grieve that he had done this. But he had put to sea, and had since heard no tidings from the shore. No swift steamer had followed him with entreaties to stay his course. He was left free to pursue his voyage ; and the voyage was growing more and more dismal. ' The Black Sea ' is a truer name than the ' Euxine.' Now, as in old times (if the summer be hardly past), the voyager leaves a coast smil- ing bright beneath skies of blue and glowing with sunny splendour ; yet, perhaps, and in less than an hour, the heavens above and the waters around him are dark with the gloom and threatening aspect belonging to the Northern Ocean.* Mon- of the countries Avhich suriouml it is one of the euitjinas to XX.
 * The contrast between the climate of the Black Sea and that