[A] In this ship, the 'Hougoumont,' I served three years. She was a transport, and was in the China war, 1860-1. Her burden was about 1,000 tons. This picture represents her as a sheer hulk employed in the construction of the Forth Bridge. I saw her towing down Channel in this state in 1889--she drew abreast of my house at Deal--and I could have wept to witness my old floating home in so miserable a condition.--C. R.
[B] This and succeeding illustrations are from photographs by Fradelle and Young.
[C] This and the succeeding illustrations are from photographs by Fradelle & Young.
[D] This and the succeeding illustrations are from photographs by 'Adrian.'
[E] Most of the illustrations in this chapter are from photographs by Messrs. W. Heath & Co., Plymouth.
[F] See the writer's _Life of David Gray_.
[G] I have given a detailed account of Peacock in my _Look Round Literature_.
[H] O those 'Tendencies of one's Time'! O those dismal Phantoms, conjured up by the blatant Book-taster and the indolent Reviewer! How many a poor Soul, that would fain have been honest, have they bewildered into the Slough of Despond and the Bog of Beautiful Ideas!--R. B.
[I] _Ne pas confondre._ Not the slim green pamphlet with the imprint of Andrew Elliott, for which (as I see with amazement from the book-lists) the gentlemen of England are willing to pay fancy prices; but its predecessor, a bulky historical romance without a spark of merit, and now deleted from the world.
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