Note 46 — THE FYRST PART OF THE NAUIGATION INTO THE NORTH SEAS.
Reading edition
Usually written Pampus. A bar of mud and sand near Amsterdam, at the junction of the Y with the Zuyder Zee. This simile calls to mind that of Mungo Park, who, on his discovery of the Niger, described it as being “as broad as the Thames at Westminster”. Such homely comparisons, though by some they may be condemned as unscientific, often speak more distinctly to the feelings of such as can appreciate them than the most elaborate descriptions. ↑