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sea-gulls fly around our vessel; we are by the
Baltic; we feel the fresh sea-breeze: it blows as
in the times of the ancient heroes, when the
sea-kings, sons of high-born fathers, exercised
their deeds here. The same sea’s surface then
appeared to them as now to us, with its
numberless isles, which lie strewed about here
in the water by thousands along the whole
coast. The depth of water between the rocky
isles and the solid land is that we call "The
Skjärgaards:" their waters flow into each other
with varying splendour. We see it in the
sunshine, and it is like a large English
landscape garden; but the greensward plain is here
the deep sea, the flower-beds in it are rocks
and reefs, rich in firs and pines, oaks and
bushes. Mark how, when the wind blows from the
cast, and the sea breaks over sunken rocks and
is dashed back again in spray from the cliffs,
your limbs feel – even through the ship on which
you stand – the power of the sea: you are lifted
as if by supernatural hands.
We rush on against wind and sea, as if it were
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