Excerpt from Tales of the Goast Guard Correctly without methodized intelligence, combined with a great reduction of duties, has so crippled the chances and gains of the professional smuggler, that whilst the risk to be run is much greater, he has no longer the same inducement to encounter it. Given, however, the same conditions - prohibitive duties and a comparatively inefficient Preventive Service, as on the coast of Spain in the present day - and adventures such as I have sketched would soon cease to startle by their novelty or strangeness R. Tv. London, 1856.(isles of 11313 (toast-651mm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.