From THe "Mobrh-Cuwg Dam News," or May 9, 1878
To the Editor of the "Mobrh-ChixA Dairy News" letter signed Jack AND g in your yesterday's an answer from My answer simply is that in be far as I am called to order 4o: the use of a word, I capitulate.
Again, even using the word in my neologistic sei nothing certainly that came from the pen of Shelley ban be described as "doggerel." God forbid! I have read through my letter again and I can see ha 1 may easily have been misunderstood. As a matter of fact I did not intend- Shelley to get mixed up in the "doggerel" slur, that was intended for Masefield and Kipling. "And now, after reading your correspondent's definition of ihe word, and looking it up for myself in.the dictionary. 1 admit that I should not have Capt. W. W. Lyon, of the bs. Standard, writes to us complaining of the difficulties and dangers shipmasters experience of ihe Hwangpoo river. He illustrates his complaint by the case of his own ship, which was stranded on the Woosung outer bar. on a "shoal spot" in mid-channel (being the third vessel im fortnight which grounded there), and s that if the spot had been marked or by a boat moored over of these accidents—each of Which occasioned great anxiety, delay ud expense—wvould have happened Speaking of the necessity of the river generally, Capt. Lyon goes on to say "The consequences of this neglect must be patent to everyone ade must diminish. for owners of vessels will not send them to a port where they are liable to so much danger and ufi necessary expense. I trust soon to ste a board of conservators in charge of the r as then we may expect to facility afforded us in it. If something of the nót done, the mercantile community will only have themselves 10 blame if the trade of the port diminishes, as it assurely will, if present circumstances are allowed to continue."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.