Identifier: tragedyofseasors01ellm (find matches)
Title: The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Ellms, Charles
Subjects: Shipwrecks
Publisher: Philadelphia, W. A. Leary: Boston, W. J. Reynolds & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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subject to every kind of annoyance to the besieged. The keep stands upon the area of the rock, having an open space around. It had no chimney, but the fires were made in the middle of a large room, the floor of which was of stone, supported by arches; and the light was admitted by a window near its top, three feet square. All the other rooms were lighted by loop-holes. Within the keep is a draw well of good water, one hundred and forty-five feet deep, cut through the solid rock. This well, was discovered in 1770, when the cellar was cleared of sand and rubbish. The remains of the chapel were also found. The chancel is separated from the nave; and, after the Saxon manner, GRACE DARLING S EARLY IMPRESSIONS. 201 semicircular at the east end. The ancient font was also found. The venerable pile is devoted to purposes of the most extensive and practical benevolence. A large school-room is fitted up for educating the boys of the neighborhood, free of expense; and another for the girls. In this school Grace
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A View of Bamborough Castle.* Darling received her education; and the scenes which occasionally took place at the castle, during storms, were well calculated to arouse the mind of a child — the signal guns of distress, which, on those occasions, thundered from the lofty battlements, and shook the massive walls of the school-room ; the rapid arrival of the neighboring inhabitants- This is a correct view of the Castle, drawn from nature, by that celebrated artist; the late William Daniel, Esq., R. A. 202 AN ACCOUNT OF BAMBOROUGH CASTLE, inhabitants for the life-boat and apparatus for communicating with wrecked vessels; their departure for the place of distress, and return with the shivering and half-naked survivor, or the lifeless form of the drowned mariner. Amid These scenes the youthful mind of Grace imbibed those compassionate and heroic feelings, which afterwards prompted her to peril her own life in rescuing those of the unfortunate survivors of the Forfarshire. Her predilection for learning w

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