Excerpt from Pencilings of Light and Shade
The main incidents of the following sketch are based upon an historical fact, and a traditionary tale.
The Revocation of’the Edict of Nantes, by Louis XIV., expatriated many of the noblest and truest citizens of France compelling them to seek, in foreign countries, that exercise of their civil and religious rights which had been denied them in their native land.
A tradition existed among the early navigators, that a group of beautiful islands far to the west, was favored with the visible presence of celestial visitants and that those who passed the night upon their coral shores, beheld heavenly visions, and listened to the harmonies of delicious music, and heard the sound of angel-voices.
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