Excerpt from The Square-Rigged Cruiser; Or, Lorrain's Sea-Sermons: Dedicated to the United States Navy, Officers and Seamen of American Merchantmen, and All True-Blues of Every Nation Under Heaven; Whether Coursing on the High Seas, Lakes and Rivers of This Planet, or Laid Up in Ordinary
The author of this volume of sermons served an apprenticeship on. The seas, and afterward sailed as an officer for some time, and may well be supposed to have a pretty thorough acquaintance with the usages of mariners. Still, it must appertain to the maritime community to pronounce on the merit of the sermons, as it respects their nautical peculiarity.
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