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It is natural to think, that to 

 men thus upon the point of perifhing 

 by fhipwreck, the getting to land was 

 the higheft attainment of their wifhes j 

 undoubtedly it was a defirable event ; 

 yet, all things confidered, our condition 

 was but little mended by the change. 

 Which ever way we looked, a fcene of 

 horror prefented itfelf : on one fide, the 

 wreck (in which was all that we had in 

 the world to fupport and fubfift us), to- 

 gether with a boifterous fea, prefented 

 us with the moft dreary profpecft ; on 

 the other, the land did not wear a much 

 more favourable appearance : defolate 

 and barren, without fign of culture, we 

 could hope to receive little other benefit 

 from it than the prefervation it afforded 

 us from the fea. It muft be confeffed 

 this was a great and merciful deliver- 

 ance from immediate deftruftion ; but 

 then we had wet, cold, and hunger, to 

 ftruggle with, and no vifible remedy 



G againft 



