The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-20
FROM NORFOLK no BOSTON.


Tho beauties and Inconvenience Of M
Ocean Trip.
To he Editor Of The InteItgaor.
sIR:-Did you ever take G Trip from
Norfolk to Boston by stesmer2 II not
then don't, unless you are proof against
sea tickness. Ihave tried 1t twice, and
the last condition Of this man was worse
than tho first. Tho Merchants and
Miners' line have eight large steamships
running between Baltimore and Provi.
dence, aud Baltimore and Boston. + left
Baltimore on Monday, the 4th, at 8 p. m,
on the good steamship Berkshire, Captain
Marsh.
The ride down the Chesapeake Bay Is a
beautiful one. We pass Forts McHenry
and Carroll, then Annapolis, where Is 10.
Gated the United States Naval Academy,
and then by the mouth Of the York and
Rappahannoct rivers, About seven the
next morning we passed Fortress Monroe,
Rip Raps and into the beautiful Hsmp.
ton Roads, made famous by the naval
battle between the Merrimac and Moni.
tor. We made our frat stop at Newport
News, which has grown to be rival Of
Norfolk. 1t Ia the terminus Of the Chesa.
peake aud Ohio Railroad Company.
They have erected immense grain eleya'
tors for shipping grain to Enrope. We
then ran aCloss the bay TO Norfolk and
there remained until p. M, loading cot.
ton, &c.
Norfolk hSa population Of about 5000
mostly Colored. Our brother in black
seems 10 do all the work that Is done here,
The town Is fRmous for liz oysters, aud It's
old church, st. Paul's. The Chuich was
built oyor two hundred years ego. The
brick was all brought from England, The
sexton showed Us the cannon ball stick.
ing In the walls Of the church, fired BY
British cannon during the Revolutionary
war. The church has been greatly beau.
titled but tho old walls have never been
taken down. The old ChurChyard con.
tains many curious tombstoaes, with
quaint inscriptions. Some record the
TACT that it has been 226 years since the
party whose memory and virtues It
records have died. The aexton showed
us the chair OnCO the properly OF John
Hancock, and the one be satin when
he signed the Declaration OF Independ.
enCe.
Portsmouth Navy Yard and Hampton
are In view across the Bay. At the latter
place 10 located the Soldiers Home, and
a beautiful place 1t Is. We glide out
into the Bay, and down be.
tween Cape Henry and Cape
Charles, then out on the broad Atlantic
far away from sight or sound OF land,
We no sooner strike the capes than our
vessel strikes the mighty swella Of the
ocean. Although there is but little wind,
still the oceal, Is heavipg. Our ship goes
up and down, up and down, constantly,
Our passengers had become pretty we'll
acquainted with each other by this time
and wereinClined 10 be social, but change
had come over the spirit Of our dreams.
We no longer Sat OH the deck, In social
chat. Our interest In the grand moonlit
scene around was abated. We, at least
some did, folded our wraps around ia and
stole away to the privacy Of our state.
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Wednesday morning was beautiful, but
VIC had strong head winds and could make
but slow progress against wind and waves
Nothing could be seen but q dreamy waste
Of waters. Two vessels passed tiB. l saw
none, lof reasons not necessary 10 name,
AhI1euny nV'I 1rik Iouuv ny IhF out