# Continental Monthly Vol 4 No 3 September 1863 Devoted To Litera

Author: Unknown

Genre: Public Domain

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: Local public-domain TXT source

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## Summary

On the 22d of November, 1855, a small company of us--three gentlemen and two ladies--left New York harbor in the schooner Louisa Dyer, of 150 tons burden, bound to the island of Jamaica. By nightfall we had lost sight of the last faint trace of New Jersey soil. New Jersey is sometimes jocularly said to be out of the Union; but on that day the two of us who were leaving our native land for the first time, entertained no doubt of its solidarity with that country of which it afforded us the last glimpse. By morning we found our small and incommodious vessel fairly on her way through the stormy November Atlantic, toiling painfully over the broad convexity of the planet, like a plodding insect...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/continental-monthly-vol-4-no-3-september-1863-devoted-to-litera-d8a4d00f/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/continental-monthly-vol-4-no-3-september-1863-devoted-to-litera-d8a4d00f/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/continental-monthly-vol-4-no-3-september-1863-devoted-to-litera-d8a4d00f/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/continental-monthly-vol-4-no-3-september-1863-devoted-to-litera-d8a4d00f/chapters/1/index.md)