It took us four days to obtain even a cursory view of Liverpool and Birkenhead.  We were very glad to be at sea again.  The weather was hot, and running about all day was tiring work.  Leaving the river, we steered along the Lancashire coast, but did not put into any of its numerous harbours, contenting ourselves with looking at the chart and reading a description of each place as we came off it.  Our course was for the Mull of Galloway, the most southern point of Scotland; but we could not steer directly for it, as we should have run down the Isle of Man, "and sunk it, for what we could tell," as Dick observed.  We had therefore to keep to the eastward of that island.  Among the places we passed were Lytham, Blackpool, and Fleetwood; and then, crossing Morecambe Bay, we passed Walney, to the south of the river Duddon.  From Fleetwood a number of vessels run across to the Isle of Man.  We were much amused on coming on deck in the morning to hear Dick Pepper remark: