Comic Annual,  7 (1836), 106–37.

The Ocean, Considered Per Se

[Thomas Hood]

Genre:

Reminiscences, Drollery

Subjects:

Navigation, Animal Magnetism, Gravity, Medical Treatment, Homeopathy


    Incudes droll comments on the operation of the nautical compass (106–09). The narrator has no 'sea-legs'. He observes: 'An earthquake in London, when its streets are what is called greasy, could not more puzzle my centre of gravity; if, indeed, I was not born, a mathematical monster, devoid of that material point!' (115). Discusses cures for sea-sickness (116–17).



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