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Excerpt from A Picturesque History of Yorkshire, Vol. 1 But there were gorgeous and picturesque shows on the Humber for centuries after that, in the times when English ships were quaint of design and awkward of movement, or when Hull sent out its fleet in response to Elizabeth's demand for ships and men, or when the whaling-boats set out for the Arctic regions, to return sore mauled and battered by the ice, or when, scarce a hundred years ago, the great three-decker battleships lingered about Spurn lest the French should there descend on the North. Nowadays the aspect of the Humber is less picturesque. The guard-ship, lying off Hull, has nothing in common with the old line-of - battle ship, and the steamships outward or inward bound, for or from New York or China, or the Baltic, or the Mediterranean, are not so beautiful on the water as the old-fashioned merchantmen which used to roll away past Spurn Head to go blundering and tumbling into the wild North Sea beyond. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
