bottles—Life Savers—Thomas Fowell Buxton—Ellerthorpe—Lambert—The “Hero of the Clyde”—His Brave Deeds—Funny Instances—The Crowning Feat—Blinded and Neglected—Appreciation at Last CHAPTER XXV. THE HAVEN AT LAST—HOME IN THE THAMES. The “Mighty Thames”—Poor Jack Home Again—Provident Sailors—The 272 Belvedere Home and its Inmates—A Ship Ashore—Rival Castaways—Greenwich Pensioners—The Present System Compared with the Old—Freedom Outside the Hospital—The Observatory—The Astronomer Royal—Modern Belief in Astrology—Site of Greenwich Park—Telescopes and Observations—The Clock which Sets the Time for all England—Sad Reminiscences—The Loss of the _Princess Alice_—The Old _Dreadnought_—The Largest Floating Hospital in the World—The Trinity House: Its Constitution, Purposes, and Uses—Lighthouses and Light‐vessels—Its Masters CHAPTER XXVI. WHAT POETS HAVE SUNG OF THE SEA, THE SAILOR, AND THE SHIP. The Poet of the Sea still Wanting—Biblical Allusions—The 290 Classical Writers—Want of True Sympathy with the Subject—Virgil’s “Æneid”—His Stage Storms—The Immortal Bard—His Intimate Acquaintance with the Sea and the Sailor—The Golden Days of Maritime Enterprise—The _Tempest_—Miranda’s Compassion—Pranks of the “Airy Spirit”—The _Merchant of Venice_—Piracy in Shakespeare’s Days—A Birth at Sea—_Cymbeline_: the Queen’s Description of our Isle—Byron’s “Ocean”—Falconer’s “Shipwreck”—His Technical Knowledge—The “True Ring”—The Dibdins—“Tom Bowling”—“The Boatman of the Downs”—Three Touching Poems—Mrs. Hemans, Longfellow, and Kingsley—Browning’s “Hervé Riel”—The True Breton Pilot—A New Departure—Hood’s “Demon Ship”—Popular Songs of the Day—Conclusion GENERAL INDEX 305 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.