Excerpt from The Sea: Sketches of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay, And Other Poems

The poems now offered to the public have neither the charm of romantic narrative, nor the zest of humorous description, to recommend them to the general reader. Yet, if their perusal will afford any gratification to more reflective minds, the author will consider that he has not laboured in vain. He has hesitated too long, and has been too cautious of submitting himself to the ordeal of criticism, to feel much disappointed at a failure now, more especially as he does not come forward as a professed littérateur. His productions are the results of a pleasing recreation in the intervals of the duties of another profession to which he has devoted himself for some years.

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