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Past this exquisitely beautiful island, of whose strand the recollection is fraught with associations of unfeverish existence, we sped rapidly before the breeze, which almost made us regret the land we were leaving.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various