My Father.

MEMORIALS OF THE SEA.

My Father :

BEING RECORDS OF THE ADVENTUROUS LIFE
OF THE LATE

WILLIAM SCORESBY, ESQ.

OF WHITBY.

BY HIS SON

THE REV. WILLIAM SCORESBY, D.D.

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH;
MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE; OF THE
AMERICAN INSTITUTE, PHILADELPHIA,

ETC. ETC.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

1851.

210. d: 32.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY M. MASON, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW,

TO THE LADY MATILDA MAXWELL,

WHOSE DISCERNMENT OF AN UNUSUAL AND SUPERIOR CHARACTER IN A MERCHANT SEAMAN,

WHEN KNOWN ONLY BY REPORT,

FIRST LED TO THE GATHERING OF RECORDS
CONCERNING HIM;

AND TO WHOSE EXPRESSIONS

OF DEEP AND ADMIRING INTEREST IN THE RELATION,
REPEATEDLY SOLICITED,

OF MANY CHARACTERISTIC INCIDENTS,
THEIR PUBLICATION IS STRICTLY DUE,-

This Volume,

COMPRISING THE OFT-TOLD STORIES, WITH
ADDITIONAL RECORDS,

OF THE ADVENTUROUS LIFE OF