2 4 5 7 To return.
If in some cases a bit of a
nautical Murat in setting forth
his person ashore, the white handsome sailor
forecastle-magnate of the period in
question evinced nothing of that the
spurious sea-fop dandified ^ Billy-be-Dam,
an amusing character still all but
extinct now, but occasionally to be
encountered, ^ in form yet more amusing and in a form yet more
amusing than the original,
at the tiller of the boats
on the tempestuous Erie Canal or,
more likely, vaporing in the groggeries
along the tow-path.
2 4 5 7 To return.
If in some cases a bit of a
nautical Murat in setting forth
his person ashore, the white handsome sailor
forecastle-magnate of the period in
question evinced nothing of that the
spurious sea-fop dandified ^ Billy-be-Dam,
an amusing character still all but
extinct now, but occasionally to be
encountered, ^ in form yet more amusing and in a form yet more
amusing than the original,
at the tiller of the boats
on the tempestuous Erie Canal or,
more likely, vaporing in the groggeries
along the tow-path.

Transcribed by: John Bryant