“Business of the Day was done; my Father was goffiping with Hugh Braidfoot next Door; there was a pleafing Confufion of distant Sounds from the City and along the Water; Boatmen calling "Yo, heave ho," and finging Snatches of Boatfongs;...”
[Cherry & Violet, Manning, 1853]
Anne Manning (1807–1879)


“From the beach at Küssnacht darting, sped our boat along the tide,
Clear the rowers' song of parting echoed from the steep lake-side;
Fitfully the light breeze creeping, scarcely stirred the sleeping bay;
O'er its crystal bosom sweeping, joyously we held our way!”
[Morland, William Wallace, Rigi-Culm, The Knickerbocker, Vol.41, 1853]