Compelled to discipline from which my sloth Would shrink, unbidden,to deep devious paths Which my dull sight would miss, I now can plunge, And dare life's eddies fearless.

We rounded the north-west end of the former at the distance of a mile and a half, passing through some heavy ripplings, apparently an eddy setting to the north-east round the island.

Closed round their heads reluctant eddies sink, And wider rings successive dash the brink.

In vain the stream In foaming eddies whirls; in vain the ditch 90 Wide-gaping threatens death.