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THE PIRATE.

FROM THE PRESS OF P. DIDOT, SENIOR,

PRINTER TO HIS MAJESTY.

THE

PIRATE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF « WAVERLEY,» « IVANHOE,» ETC.

Nothing in him

But doth suffer a sea-change.

Tempest.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PARIS:

PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNani, 18, rue viVIENNE,
AND P. DIDOT, SEN. RUE DU PONT-DE-Lodi.

M DCCC XXII.

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INBLIOTHECA

REGLA

MONACENSIS.

STAATS-
DIBLIOTHEK

MUENCHEN

THE PIRATE.

CHAPTER I.

The storm had ceased its wintry roar,
Hoarse dash the billows of the sea;

But who on Thule's desert shore,

Cries, Have I burn'd my harp for thee?

MACNIEL.

THAT long, narrow, and irregular island, usually called the Main-Land of Zetland, because it is by far the largest of that Archipelago, terminates, as is well known to the mariners who navigate the stormy seas which surround the Thule of the ancients, in a cliff of tremendous height, entitled Sumburgh-Head, which presents its bare scalp and naked sides to the weight of a tremendous surge, and forms the extreme point of the isle to the south-east. This lofty promontory is constantly exposed to the current of a strong and furious tide, which setting in betwixt the Orkney and Zetland Islands, and running with force only

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