Show of the channel Chann cL there are about eighty days in the year when the dreaded english channel is nearly as smooth as a mill pond though there will generally occur a slight ground swell if a northeast or northwest wind vind blows hard it is quite true that the sea se a in the channel is one of the worst in the world though relatively slight the tides which are very various crossing the wind combined with the shallowness of 0 f the water and the fact that the ebb and flood meet and part just off dover kicer kic k up at times an entirely peculiar peculia and abominable ocean dance which even old salts cannot always stand rut but at the worst the passage e isnora days only a matter of some c eighty or br ninety minutes very dafler different t from those bygone times when e lugger rigged smacks or heavy cutters u used A to roll the suffering passengers from froin coast to coast on such a wild sea as ai is is depicted in turners famous picture or as when in 1822 the first packet the rob roy eoy of fifty fiat tons tofts came over on may 22 bringing six shi adventurous persons |