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the bank. I was then quite young. I only 

 recollect we were to the South'd of the bank 

 and our draft of ship was fourteen feet, and 

 on the shoal only ten feet, so that the heavy 

 press of sail was what saved us by cutting 

 the coral and getting over. We were fortu- 

 nate in weather, as we had only eighteen 

 days after to sail. 



As I had now got home and felt the fears 

 subside of seasickness and of that night of 

 disaster, I began to talk large of the seas 

 and its casualties. One thing my father 

 had been informed of in my adventure 

 what it sold for, and finding I had one 

 tierce of molasses only, did not like my 

 frugality. He took me into a room with 

 him and expatiated on prudence and eco- 

 nomy and actually made me ashamed of the 

 extravagance I had been to. 



Remaining at home about five weeks, I 

 entered on board the schooner John, 1 



1 Schooner " John " of Beverly, seventy tons burden, 

 built in Newbury in 1785, owned by Samuel Ingersoll, 

 John Stephens, Thomas Stevens and Moses Brown. 



