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Description You seem to be making straight for a gray mud flat; but as you approach you see a narrow lane of water opening in the mud and shingle.

Two low banks, like the banks of a canal, thrust out their ends into the waters of the lough; and presently, her speed reduced to dead slow, the ship enters between these low mud banks, which are called the Twin Islands.

So narrow is the lane that as she enters the water rises on the shingle banks and flows in waves on either side of her like two gray horses with white manes that canter slowly along, a solemn escort, until the channel between the islands is passed.

Day and night, winter and summer, these two gray horses are always waiting; no ship ever surprises them asleep; no ship enters but they rise up 9] and shake their manes and accompany her with their flowing, cantering motion along the confines of their territory.

And when you have passed the gates that they guard you are in Belfast Harbour, in still and muddy water that smells of the land and not of the sea; for you seem already to be far from the things of the sea.

About the Author Alexander Bell Filson Young (1876-1938) was a journalist, who published the first book about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, called Titanic, published in 1912 only 37 days after the sinking.

He was also an essayist, war correspondent in the Boer War and World War I, a programmes advisor to the BBC, and the author of two novels.

Beside his literary work, he was an organist and composer, and a pioneer of motoring and aviation.

His first publication was A Psychic Vigil (1896), which he issued under the pseudonym, 'X.

Rays'.