Scottish Fishing Life

Early on a summer morning, about the beginning of the present century, two fishermen of Forfarshire wended their way to the shore, launched their boat, and put off to sea
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One of the men was tall and ill-favoured, the other, short and well-favoured. Both were square-built, powerful fellows, like most men of the class to which they belonged
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The 'rock' alluded to was the celebrated and much dreaded Inch Cape—more familiarly known as the Bell Rock
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They approached the rock on the lee side, which was, as has been said, to the westward.
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It would have appeared that the reckless men were sailing into the jaws of certain death, for the breakers burst around them so confusedly in all directions
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