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Show 204 NIGHT VOYAGE. rising fast; while lowering clouds spread their black. and\ gloomy * pall over the dark, tumultuous waters. With'our heavy flat- bottomed boat, rowing against a head wind and a very considerable sea was hard work, especially after a day already spent in severe * toil; bat we had either to continue on, or ta anchor, as there was no shore that we could approach in the dark, OH Account of the shallowness of the water. We accordingly followed around the edge ol the bar, being forced thus to make a circuit of some ten . miles, when wto finally succeeded in getting to the northward of the shoal, and turned our faces in the proper direction. By this time it'was'ten o'olbcVat night, and we had been constantly engaged since daylight. The windt now blowing favourably from the north- west; we again set car sails, the crew was sent to rest in the bottom of the boat, and I continued at the helm during tfie night.. The western and northern part of this- extensive flat ( for it is all just above the level'bf the water)- forms, as well aa I coijld judge in the darkness, a hard tiifaceous reef, against which a ftorth- West wind' dashed th$ heavy water with great violence. Indeed, for a part of the night, I was guided In my course by the roar of the breakers beating against the reef, reminding i& e forcibly of similar adventures upon the iron- botlnd coast of New England, or of the heave of the* surf upon the coral- reefs of Florida. „ '. Nothing occurred during the night, except grounding upon the tail of a sand- spit making out to the southward from a little island a few miles north oT Carrington's, to which the boy* had gifen the name of « Sat" Island." " This might easily have been avoided had not the night been to vfrrjT'dark and the lofty range of the Wah<- - satch Mountains ahead enveloped us in a mantle of such profound blackness that it seemed at every heave of the sea asif We were plunging into the' very mouth of Avernus. After shoving the boat over . the bar with handspikes, we struck immediately into deep / water, and as I now knew every inch'of the way, the people again retired to their blankets, being very weary. The night soon began. tacjear aWay and the stars to appear, their beams reflected brilliantly in the dense water of the lake. Flashes 6f vivid lightning blazed up occasionally from behind the mountains, and ' several Meteors, some of great size and dazzling brilliancy, shot down the sty to the north- east. This was the third entire'night I had thus spent upon the lake, sitting quietly at the helm, gniding my little bark over its solitary waste. Again was I struck with the deep and pro- |