of Barbadoes, in command of another Regiment, and he was amazed
     to find that the bottle (cast into the sea by the explosion
     that destroyed the Kent) had been washed ashore on that very
     island. The paper, with its faint pencil lines expressing
     Christian faith, is still preserved; and this account of it can
     be authenticated by those who were saved.

      "I am, your obedient servant,
        "ONE OF THEM."

The bottle, after its long immersion, was thickly covered with weeds and
barnacles. The following are the words of the "Letter from the Deep,"
which it contained:--

     "The ship the Kent, Indiaman, is on fire--Elizabeth Joanna and
     myself commit our spirits into the hands of our blessed
     Redeemer--His grace enables us to be quite composed in the
     awful prospect of entering eternity.

        "D. M'GREGOR.
    "_1st March, 1825, Bay of Biscay._"

The writer of that letter lives now with blessings on his venerable
head, while he who records it anew is humbly grateful to God for his own
preservation. And may we not say of every one who reads such words,
written in such an hour, that his life would be unspeakably happy if he
could lay hold now of so firm a Surety, and be certain to keep fast hold
to the end?

The following notes are on miscellaneous points:--

(_a_) We are sometimes asked about such a canoe voyage as this, "Is it
not very dangerous?"

There seems to me to be no necessary danger in the descent of a river in
a canoe; but if you desire to make it as safe as possible you must get
out at each difficult place and examine the course, and if the course is
too difficult you may take the boat past the danger by land.

On the other hand, if the excitement and novelty of finding out a course
on the spur of the moment is to be enjoyed, then, no doubt, there is
more danger to the boat.

As for danger to the canoist, it is supposed, _imprimis_, that he is
well able to swim, not only in a bath when stripped, but when
unexpectedly thrown into the water with his clothes on, and that he
_knows_ he can rely on this capacity.

If this be so, the chief danger to him occurs when he meets a steamer on
rough water (rare enough on such a tour); for if his boat is upset by
that, and his head is broken by the paddle floats, the swimming powers
are futile for safety.

The danger incurred by the boat is certainly both considerable and
frequent, but nothing short of the persuasion that the boat would be
smashed if a great exertion is not made will incite the canoist to those
very exertions which are the charm of travelling, when spirit, strength,
and skill are to be proved. Men have their various lines of exercise as
they have of duty. The huntsman may not understand the pleasures of a
rapid, nor the boatman care for the delights of a "bullfinch."
Certainly, however, the waterman can say that a good horse may carry a
bad rider well, but that the best boat will not take a bad boatman
through a mile of broken water. In each case there is, perhaps, a little
of _populus me sibilat_, and it may possibly be made up for by a good
deal of _at mihi plaudo_.

(_b_) It has been said that the constant use of a canoe paddle must
contract the chest, but this is certainly a mistake. If, indeed, you
merely dabble each blade of the paddle in the water without taking the
full length of the stroke the shoulders are not thrown back, and the
effect will be injurious; but exactly the same is true if you scull or
row with a short jerky stroke.

In a proper use of the paddle the arms ought to be in turn fully
extended, and then brought well back, so that the hand touches the side,
and the chest is then well plied in both directions.

In using the single-bladed paddle, of which I have had experience in
Canada and New Brunswick with the Indians in bark canoes and log canoes,
there seems to be a less beneficial action on the pectoral muscles, but
after three months' use of the double paddle I found the arms much
strengthened, while clothes that fitted before were all too narrow round
the chest when put on after this exercise.

(_c_) In shallow water the paddle should be clasped lightly, so that if
it strikes the bottom or a rock the hand will yield and not the blade be
broken.

Great caution should be used when placing the blade in advance to meet a
rock, or even a gravel bank, otherwise it gets jammed in the rock or
gravel, or the boat overrides it.

It is better in such a case to retard the speed rather by dragging the
paddle (tenderly), and always with its flat side downwards, so that the
edge does not get nipped.

(_d_) M. Farcôt, a French engineer, has lately exhibited on the Thames a
boat which is rowed by the oarsman sitting with his face to the bow, who
by this means secures one of the advantages of the canoe--that of seeing
where you are going.

To effect this, a short prop or mast about three feet high is fixed in
the boat, and the two sculls are jointed to it by their handles, while
their weight is partly sustained by a strong spiral spring acting near
the joint, and in such a manner as to keep the blade of the scull a few
inches from the surface of the water when it is not pressed down
purposely.

The sculler then sits with his face towards the mast and the bow, and he
holds in each hand a rod jointed to the loom of the corresponding scull.
By this means each scull is moved on the mast as a fulcrum with the
power applied between that and the water. The operation of feathering is
partially performed, and to facilitate this there is an ingeniously
contrived guide.

This invention appears to be new, but it is evident that the plan
retains many of the disadvantages of common sculls, and it leaves the
double paddle quite alone as a simple means for propelling a canoe in
narrow or tortuous channels, or where it has to meet waves, weeds,
rocks, or trees, and moreover has to sail.

However, the muscular power of the arms can be applied with good effect
in this new manner, and I found it not very difficult to learn the use
of this French rowing apparatus, which is undoubtedly very ingenious,
and deserves a full trial before a verdict is pronounced.

(_e_) In a difficult place where the boat is evidently going too near a
rock, the disposition of the canoist is to change the direction by a
_forward_ stroke on one side, but this adds to the force with which a
collision may be invested. It is often better to _back_ a stroke on the
other side, and thus to lessen this force; and this is nearly always
possible to be done even when the boat appears to be simply drifting on
the stream. In fact, as a maxim, there is always steerage way sufficient
to enable the paddle to be used exactly as a rudder.

(_f_) When there is a brilliant glare of the sun, and it is low, and
directly in front, and it is impossible to bear its reflection on the
water, a good plan is to direct the bow to some point you are to steer
for, and then observe the reflection of the sun on the cedar deck of the
boat. Having done this you may lower the peak of your hat so as to cut
off the direct rays of the sun, and its reflected rays on the water,
while you steer simply by the light on the deck.

(_g_) When a great current moves across a river to a point where it
seems very unlikely to have an exit, you may be certain that some
unusual conformation of the banks or of the river bed will be found
there, and caution should be used in approaching the place. This,
however, is less necessary when the river is deep. Such cross currents
are frequent on the Rhine, but they result merely from unevenness in the
bottom far below, and thus we see how the rapids, most dangerous when
the river is low, become quite agreeable and safe in high flood time.

(_h_) The ripple and bubbles among weeds are so totally different from
those on free water that their appearance at a distance as a criterion
of the depth, current, and direction of the channel must be learned
separately. In general, where weeds are under water, and can sway or
wave about, there will be water enough to pass--the requisite 3 inches.
Backing up stream against long weeds is so troublesome, and so sure to
sway the stern round athwart stream, that it is best to force the boat
forward instead, even if you have to get out and pull her through.

(_i_) Paddling through rushes, or flags, or other plants above the
water, so as to cut off a corner, is a mistake. Much more "way" is lost
then by the friction than might be supposed.

(_j_) I noticed a very curious boat-bridge across the Rhine below Basle.
It seemed to open wide without swinging, and on coming close to it the
plan was found to be this. The boats of one half of the bridge were
drawn towards the shore, and a stage connecting them ran on wheels along
rails inwards from the river, and up an incline on the bank. This system
is ingenious, convenient, and philosophical.

(_k_) Double-hulled boats have often been tried for sailing, but their
disadvantages are manifest when the craft is on a large scale, though
for toy-boats they answer admirably, and they are now quite fashionable
on the Serpentine.

The double boat of the nautical tinman on the Rhine, before described,
was a "fond conceit." But there are many double-hulled boats on French
rivers, and they have this sole recommendation, that you sit high up,
and so can fish without fearing you may "turn the turtle."

When the two hulls are reduced as much as possible, this sort of boat
becomes an aquatic "walking machine," for one foot then rests on each
hull. Propulsion is obtained either by linking the hulls together with
parallel bars moving on studs, while vanes are on each side, so as to
act like fins, and to collapse for the alternate forward stroke of each
foot bound to its hull--or a square paddle, or a pole works on the water
or on the bottom. I have always noticed that the proprietors of such
craft are ingenious, obstinate men, proud of their peculiar mode, and
very touchy when it is criticised. However, it is usually best, and it
is fortunately always easy, to paddle away from them.

(_l_) The hard exercise of canoe paddling, the open-air motion, constant
working of the muscles about the stomach, and free perspiration result
in good appetite and pleasant sleepiness at night. But at the end of the
voyage the change of diet and cessation of exercise will be apt to cause
derangement in the whole system, and especially in the digestion, if the
high condition or "training" be not cautiously lowered into the humdrum
"constitutionals" of more ordinary life. Still I have found it very
agreeable to take a paddle in the Rob Roy up to Hammersmith and back
even in December and March.

The last public occasion on which she appeared was on April 17, when the
captain offered her aid to the Chief Constructor of the Navy in the
effort of the Admiralty to launch the ironclad Northumberland. The offer
was eagerly accepted, and the launch was accordingly successful.

The Rob Roy has since departed for a voyage to Norway and Iceland in the
schooner yacht Sappho, whose young owner, Mr. W. F. Lawton, has
promised "to be kind to her." It is intended that a new Rob Roy should
make a voyage next summer with another canoe called the "Robin Hood."

(_m_) Other pleasant voyages may be suggested for the holiday of the
canoist. One of these might begin with the Thames, and then down the
Severn, along the north coast of Devon, and so by the river Dart to
Plymouth. Another on the Solent, and round the Isle of Wight. The Dee
might be descended by the canoe, and then to the left through the Menai
Straits. Or a longer trip may be made through the Cumberland lakes by
Windermere and the Derwent, or from Edinburgh by the Forth, into the
Clyde, and through the Kyles of Bute to Oban; then along the Caledonian
Canal, until the voyager can get into the Tay for a swift run eastward.

But why not begin at Gothenburg and pass through the pretty lakes of
Sweden to Stockholm, and then skirt the lovely archipelago of green
isles in the Gulf of Bothnia, until you get to Petersburg?

For one or other of such tours a fishing-rod and an air rifle, and for
all of them a little dog, would be a great addition to the outfit.

In some breezy lake of these perhaps, or on some rushing river, the
little Rob Roy may hope to meet the reader's canoe; and when the sun is
setting, and the wavelets ripple sleepily, the pleasures of the paddle
will be known far better than they have been told by the pen.

C. A. Macintosh, Printer, Great New-street, London.

    _Milton House, Ludgate Hill,
        April, 1866._

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Ten Days in a French Parsonage. By Rev. G. M. Musgrave. 2 vols. post
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Canada and its Resources. Two Prize Essays, by Hogan and Morris. 7_s._,
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SCIENCE AND DISCOVERY.

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The Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology; or, the Economy
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Inhabitants, and whatever there may be of general interest in its
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Theory of the Winds, by Capt. Charles Wilkes. 8vo. cl. 8_s._ 6_d._

Archaia; or, Studies of the Cosmogony and Natural History of the Hebrew
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The English and Australian Cookery Book. Small post 8vo. Coloured
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The Bubbles of Finance: the Revelations of a City Man. Fcap. 8vo. fancy
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     appeared within the last two months in Mr. Charles Dickens's_
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Coffee: A Treatise on its Nature and Cultivation. With some remarks on
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The Railway Freighter's Guide. Defining mutual liabilities of Carriers
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THEOLOGY.

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     Footnotes and illustrations have been moved to underneath the
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     Inconsistent hyphenation left as printed.

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