[Footnote 79: Ruskin, _Notes on the Turner Collection_, p. 80.] [Footnote 80: Thornbury's _Life of Turner_, vol. i. pp. 335-336.] [Footnote 81: 'She was towed up the river by two steam tugs; every vessel that she passed appeared like a pigmy.'--_Gentleman's Magazine_, 'Domestic Occurrences,' September 16, 1838.] [Footnote 82: Ruskin, _Notes on the Turner Collection_, p. 81.] [Footnote 83: The _Temeraire_, of course, was fading _up_ the river, but the exigences of euphony no doubt required the inversion.] [Footnote 84: The _Temeraire_, from which the Trafalgar _Temeraire_ took her name, was a French 74, captured by Admiral Boscawen in his battle with De la Clue off Lagos in August 1759. She served in the British navy for some years, and after being utilised as a floating battery at Plymouth during the American War, was finally sold out of the service in 1783.] [Footnote 85: '"Thirty-six hours' calm, and England is ours," so says one of the French papers in announcing that the invasion of England is to be attempted before the 14th July. A division of the Imperial Guard has already arrived at Havre on its way to Boulogne, where the Emperor will arrive within a week.'--The _Observer_, June 24, 1804. 'By an American gentleman just arrived from the Continent, we have received positive and authentic information that the Boulogne flotilla is in a complete state of equipment and ready to embrace the first opportunity of putting to sea. Whether that opportunity will ever be permitted to the enemy by our blockading squadrons remains to be seen. The troops stationed on the uplands above Boulogne, and in its vicinity, amount to upwards of 160,000 men.'--The _Times_, August 14, 1804.] [Footnote 86: Captain Mahan, _The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire_, vol. ii. p. 118.] [Footnote 87: _Memoirs and Correspondence of Lord Collingwood_, by G.L. Newnham Collingwood, p. 93.]