The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

amorous city

and music every even
•elief,
_and the pause

of the band
the ever-rest
But the stea

ere responded to by the sublimer
ss and beating sea of the far-famed bav

rked on Saturday
fine, fair

We emt
lovely morning

ere parting with ands'aluii
hearted Italians were kissii
side of each other's cheeks.

with their long, wavir4,
Aural, and grand ! Wo-

nd tears, like sun-

a fine boat

EPARATION !

boats, with men em:

poles and nets, were fishing for oysters; a
11 was rolling yet from the late gale ; everything
ly-defined and picturesque. Never had 'I so
pleasant and delightfUl a twenty-one hours' propulsion as
that from Naples to Palermo, and never should the travel-
ler allow this trip to Sicilia to escape him. We passed
near to Ischia and Caprwa, and another volcanic island of
tuffa and lava, all their rugged pointed rocks and jutting
promontories so clearly visible as to size and form. Soon
weak sex descended tv their cabins Wow and 111-

emerges to the surface with a

loft,-a snap or two is made, the huge pouch is seen for a
nded; then collapses as before; and heavily

moment c

with his fellows. It is worthy of observation that the
pelican invariably performs a somerset under the surface ;
tor descending• as he always does, diagonally; not perpen-
dicularly; the head emerges looking in the opposite di-
rection to that in which it was looking before. When
the morning appetite is sated, they sit calmly on the
heavinr surface•, looking much like a miniature fleet. In

the evening

as I have stated, we see them pursuing their
Standing at the door of Blue-

laborious course to repose

fields, which, from a slight elevation, commands a wide
prospect-of the beautiful bay, I have often watched in the
evening, while the sun, sinking among his gilded piles and
peaks of cloud on the horizon sea, leaves the air refresh-
I balmy, while the dying sea breeze scarcely

ingly cool an

_
straggling flocks of pelicans, from a dozen to forty or fifty,
passing slowly.along over the shore. On such occasions
they manifest a decided tendency to form long, continuous
strings like ducks. When the flocks are beating for fish,
or sailing round and round on the watch,.there is such
arrangement, but all circle in confusion equal to that of
the planets of the Ptolemaic system. Yet at any time of
the day, in taking a lengthened flight, whether shifting
their locality or slowly sweeping over the sea, they usually
take a lineal order. In flying thus in lines, I have been

The flight is performed by alternate iutervals of heavy
flappings, and sailing on outstretched motionless wings ;
and the resumption or suspension of one or the other state
is regulated by the leading bird of the line. For example,
the first begins to flap • in an instant the second begins,
then the third, then ihe fourth, and so on, with perfect
regularity of succession, and neither ceases till the first
does, and then only each one in its own turn. That this

does not depend o; the period of each motion being con-
stant is shown by the fact that the duration of either state
is very varying and arbitrary. If a bird be following the
same course near at hand, but not within the line, he does
not regard the succession at all, but governs his own mo-
tion. The pelican, on alighting on the water to swim,
brings his feet, which before had been stretched cut be-
hind, into a standing position, and, as it were, slides along
the surface for. several yards before he swims.— Gosse's
Birds of Jamaica,