The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 488, May 7, 1831. Various

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of the deceased arrange themselves on each side. A rope, which is kept out of sight in these arrangements, is then made fast to the grating, for a purpose which will be seen presently. When all is ready, the chaplain, if there be one on board, or, if not, the captain, or any of the officers he may direct to officiate, appears on the quarter-deck and commences the beautiful service, which, though but too familiar to most ears, I have observed, never fails to rivet the attention even of the rudest and least reflecting. Of course, the bell has ceased to toll, and every one stands in silence and uncovered as the prayers are read. Sailors, with all their looseness of habits, are well disposed to be sincerely religious; and when they have fair play given them, they will always, I believe, be found to stand on as good vantage ground, in this respect, as their fellow-countrymen on shore. Be this as it may, there can be no more attentive, or apparently reverent auditory, than assembles on the deck of a ship of war, on the occasion of a shipmate's burial.

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      Holinshed.

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      Alba, the city of Romulus, the founder of Rome, was called so from a white sow found there by Æneas.—Vide Livy, lib. i

      Cum tibi sollicito secreti ad fluminis undam

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Holinshed.

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Alba, the city of Romulus, the founder of Rome, was called so from a white sow found there by Æneas.—Vide Livy, lib. i

Cum tibi sollicito secreti ad fluminis undamLitoreis ingens inventa sub illicibus sus,Triginta capitum foetus enixa jacebit,Alba, solo recubans, albi circum ubera nati:Is locus urbis erit ei.Virgil Æneid, lib. iii. v. 390.When, in the shady shelter of a woodAnd near the margin of a gentle flood,Thou shalt behold a sow upon the ground,With thirty sucking young encompassed round;The dam and offspring white as falling snow:These on thy city shall their name bestow, &c.DRYDEN.

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