Crossword-Solution: BARQUES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

The wide Sound, the Breakwater, the light-house on far-off Eddystone, the dark steam vessels, brigs, barques, and schooners, either floating stilly, or gliding with tiniest motion, were as the dream, then; the dreamed-of event was as the reality.

The river is navigable within three miles of the town for ships of large burthen; a little lower it may receive even a royal navy; and up to that part called the Hythe, close to the houses, it is navigable for hoys and small barques.

The quay and the harbour of this town during the fishing fair, as they call it, which is every Michaelmas, one sees the land covered with people, and the river with barques and boats, busy day and night landing and carrying of the herrings, which they catch here in such prodigious quantities, that it is incredible.

And there is always the chance of dreams.” “What do you men dream of in those little barques of yours tossing for months on the water?” “Mostly of nothing,” said Dominic.

These diminutive barques should be prohibited from carrying more than a definite number of passengers.