Ogg's, which shows its aged, fluted red roofs and the broad gables of its
wharves between the low wooded hill and the river-brink, tingeing the water with a soft purple hue under the transient glance of this February sun.
Two men were promenading up and down the
wharves, among the crowd of natives and strangers who were sojourning at this once straggling village-- now, thanks to the enterprise of M.
In the afternoon of the day when I reached New Bedford, I visited the
wharves, to take a view of the shipping.
There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by
wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs--commerce surrounds it with her surf.
At every mooring-chain and rope, at every stationery boat or barge that split the current into a broad- arrowhead, at the offsets from the piers of Southwark Bridge, at the paddles of the river steamboats as they beat the filthy water, at the floating logs of timber lashed together lying off certain
wharves, his shining eyes darted a hungry look.
The merchants shut up their warehouses, and the laboring men stood idle about the
wharves. But all America felt interested in the good town of Boston; and contributions were raised, in many places, for the relief of the poor inhabitants.
And the winds of adventure blew the oyster pirate sloops up and down San Francisco Bay, from raided oyster-beds and fights at night on shoal and flat, to markets in the morning against city
wharves, where peddlers and saloon-keepers came down to buy.
Wharves, landing-places, dock-gates, waterside stairs, follow each other continuously right up to London Bridge, and the hum of men's work fills the river with a menacing, muttering note as of a breathless, ever-driving gale.
Beyond the steamboat wharf, the fishing
wharves dwindled to stages for the drying of nets; and here, away from the noise and clatter of the alien town, Saxon and Billy took off their packs and rested.
They wall up both banks with slanting solid stone masonry--so that from end to end of these rivers the banks look like the
wharves at St.