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by whose blessing our contrivances were rendered 

 effectual, happily terminated a voyage at once ha- 

 zardous, disastrous, and interesting. 



Intelligence relative to the distressed state of the 

 ship, and the hopelessness of her situation, reached 

 Whitby the day before us ; and involved, in conse- 

 quence of some exaggerations respecting the loss of 

 the crew, every interested person in deep distress. 

 Throughout the town, and in a great measure, in- 

 deed, throughout the neighbourhood, the event was 

 considered as a general calamity. Some of the un- 

 derwriters on the Esk, I was informed, had offered 

 60 per cent., for the re-assurance of the sums for 

 which they were liable ; but such was the nature of 

 the risk, as ascertained from the inforaiation of some 

 ships' crews by "whom we had been assisted, that no 

 one would undertake the re-assurance even at this 

 extraordinary premium. 



The hearty congratulations I received on landing, 

 from every acquaintance, were almost overwhelming ; 

 and these, with the enhanced endearments of my 

 affectionate and enraptured wife, amply repaid me 

 for all the toils and anxieties of mind that I had en- 

 dured. 



On the tide ebbing out, the Esk was left dry ; 

 on which, for the first time since the accident, the 

 whole of the water was drawn out of the hold by 

 the pumps. The next tide, the ship was removed 

 above the bridge, to a place of perfect safety, where. 



