How then is this?
Are the green fields gone?
What do they here?
But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive.

Strange! Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice.No.They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in.

And there they stand--miles of them--leagues.

Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues--north, east, south, and west.

Yet here they all unite.
Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?
Once more.