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About thirty miles from Liverpool we took on board a pilot, whose fair complexion, unbronzed by the sun, was remarked by the ladies, and soon after a steamer arrived and took us in tow.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen