[seafarer]

Originally Posted by -SWCowboy.

Yeah the Brits have the worst weather I've seen in the game. One patrol it rained non-stop by the time I hit the English coast until I ended my mission... it really sucked cause I just got a new gunner

from A Summer in Skye, by Alexander Smith, 1865 (drawn from his travels to the Isle of Skye in 1864)

A mile or two after we had passed the little fishing village with which I had formerly made acquaintance, we entered on a very dismal district of country. It was precisely to the eye what the croak of the raven is to the ear. It was an utter desolation in which nature seemed deteriorated, and at her worst. Winter could not possibly sadden the region; no spring could quicken it into flowers. The hills wore but for ornament the white streak of the torrent; the rocky soil clothed itself in heather to which the purple never came. Even man, the miracle-worker, who transforms everything he touches, who has rescued a fertile Holland from the waves, who has reared a marble Venice out of salt lagoon and marsh, was defeated there. Labour was resultless - it went no further than itself - it was like a song without an echo. A turf-hut with smoke issuing from the roof, and a patch of green round about, which reminded you of the smile of an ailing child, and which would probably ripen, so far as it was capable of ripening, by November, was all that man could wrest from nature.