. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. Speak up, sir. 206. The Flying Dutchman. THE DEMON-SHIP. STORIES of storm-ships and haunted vessels, of spectre-shallopsand supernatural Dutch dosjjers, are common to mnny countries,and are well attested both in poetry and prose. The adventures ofSolway sailors, with Mahound, in his bottomless bar>:;es, and thecareerings of tlie phantom-sliip up and down the Hudson, havehundreds of asserters besides Messrs Cunningham and Cravon ; andto doubt their authenticity may seem like an imitation of the desperatesailing of the haunted vessels the
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. Speak up, sir. 206. The Flying Dutchman. THE DEMON-SHIP. STORIES of storm-ships and haunted vessels, of spectre-shallopsand supernatural Dutch dosjjers, are common to mnny countries,and are well attested both in poetry and prose. The adventures ofSolway sailors, with Mahound, in his bottomless bar>:;es, and thecareerings of tlie phantom-sliip up and down the Hudson, havehundreds of asserters besides Messrs Cunningham and Cravon ; andto doubt their authenticity may seem like an imitation of the desperatesailing of the haunted vessels themselves against wind and tide. Icannot help fancying, however, that Richard Faulder was but one ofthose tavern-dreamers recorded by old Heywood, who conceived The room wherein they quaffd to be a pinuace. And ns for the Flying Dutchman, my notion is very different from thepopular conception ofthat apparition, as I have ventured to show bythe above design. The spectre-ship, bound to Dead-Mans Isle, isalmost as awful a craft a^ the skeleton-bark of the Ancient Mariner;but
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