We entered a little bay, of half an acre, the points forming it coming within a few yards of each other, and the branches of the trees intertwining their long arms lovingly above.

It forms a bay which is navigable for vessels of large burden."

" Both midshipmen saluted, then left the sick-bay.

" They laughed together in anticipation as they crossed the bay.

"The proposals she makes are (1) to open the whole bay.

Four or five miles down the lake, is a beautiful bay, stretching for near half a mile around a high promontory, almost reaching another bay winding around a like promontory beyond, leaving a peninsula of five hundred acres joined to the main land, by a narrow neck of some forty rods in width.

We examined the bay behind this peninsula, which appears to be a harbor capable of admitting large vessels.

The west side, facing the bay, had a 4 foot bank crowned by a palisade, with no ditch; and the east side, on the bank of the river, was protected by a double row of water casks.

For this purpose he sailed along the coast, in quest of a commodious harbour, and, on May 13, discovered a bay, which seemed not improper for their purpose, but which they durst not enter, till it was examined; an employment in which Drake never trusted any, whatever might be his confidence in his followers on other occasions.

I found him living in what had been a temple, but what in point of fact makes a very nice cottage, overlooking the bay.

We spent the next day in rowing about the Upper Saranac, exploring its beautiful bays and islands.

They found the bay.

We passed the little bay where St. Chrysostom was buried, the point of Chalcedon, and now, looking up the renowned Bosphorus, saw the Maiden's Tower, opposite Scutari.

" "They've all got it though, 'round this bay.

This point separates two deep bays, both of which were of very inviting appearance, on account of the high and broken character of the gullies on either side of Mount Abbott, and it was almost evident that they both terminate in a river.

About ten miles further on, as we passed the edge of a dense hammock, we heard the bay of an Indian dog, and fearing the proximity of a party of marauders, we were instantly on the alert.

Many weeks must go by ere the ice could quit the bay, and even a boat could put to sea.

Dr. Webb was riding a beautiful thoroughbred bay, which he had brought with him from the East.

Scott, too, landed in Balloon Bight, and, like his predecessors, saw the large bay to the west.

Now times are changed, and one poetic itch Has seized the court and city, poor and rich: Sons, sires, and grandsires, all will wear the bays, Our wives read Milton, and our daughters plays, To theatres, and to rehearsals throng, And all our grace at table is a song.

His studious patience, and laborious art With regular approach assay'd the heart; Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays, For they who durst not censure, scarce could praise.

" Of flowers and plants employed as love-charms on certain festivals may be noticed the bay, rosebud, and the hempseed on St. Valentine's Day, nuts on St. Mark's Eve, and the St. John's wort on Midsummer Eve.

It is barely two score years and ten Since the epoch-making day When a foreign fleet, through the summer heat, Came sailing up our bay; Still ring in my ears my father's words, As we watched it breast the waves, "If strangers land on Nippon's strand, We may one day be their slaves.

A flock of sheep, moving in a dense woolly mass, came down a gangway; squealing pigs occupied a bay across the piles of goods.

But the nave elevation, taken bay by bay, is admirable.