It seemed to be no more than a hundred fathoms distant, and, against the moon, I saw the outline of it most clearlya mighty devilfish.

The felucca rode stationary, while the lugger dropped astern fathom after fathom until she lay more than a hundred yards distant from the fiery mass.

Yet, when the reopened hatches let in the sweet smell of the land, Bras-Coupé had come to the upperthe favoredthe buttered side of the world; the anchor slid with a rumble of relief down through the muddy fathoms of the Mississippi, and the prince could hear through the schooner's side the savage current of the river, leaping and licking about the bows, and whimpering low welcomes home.

The former is, I believe, true in every instance; but the latter is certainly not so, as the first soundings we got here, were in water as blue as indigo, depth fifty odd fathoms.

It was now high tide; the water extended a scant ten fathoms to end on an interior shale beach.

And again I lookt with my hope gone, unto the Pyramid; for the Hounds did be scarce two hundred fathoms off from me; and there did be hundreds of the mighty beasts.