“The following morning we had enough to do to replace crippled yards, repair broken rigging, and to get underweigh; for our modest north-easter was peeping out again, and, seeing nothing of the boisterous south, whispered to us that we might lift our anchor; and that was soon done, you may be sure, with a few hearty yeo, heave ho's! The same cheering song, was issuing from about fifty sail of vessels, of all sizes, from a Scotch smack to a seventy-four, the harbour, at the same time, thickly studded with pilot- boats, bomb-boats, and boats of all descriptions.”
[No,XI, Letter of a Traveller, The British Channel – Outward Board, The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and Scientific Mirror, Vol.9, No,438, 1828]