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clufion. In the midft of his reafoning on 



the fubjecl, the water making a rapid advance, 

 had now reached him. It covered the ground, 

 on which he flood it rippled over his feet 

 it gained his knees his waift button after 

 button was fwallowed up till at length it 

 advanced over his very fhoulders. With a 

 palpitating heart, he gave himfelf up for loft. 

 Still however he held fail by his anchor. His 

 eye was eagerly in fearch of fome boat, which 

 might accidentally take it's courfe that way : 

 but none appeared. A folitary head, floating 

 on the water, and that fometimes covered by 

 a wave, was no object to be defcried from the 

 more, at the diftance of half a league: nor 

 could he exert any founds of diftrefs, that could 



be heard fo far. While he was thus making 



up his mind, as the exigence would allow, to 

 the terrors of certain deftruction, his attention 

 was called to a new objecl: . He thought he 

 faw the uppermoft button of his coat begin to 

 appear. No mariner, floating on a wreck, 

 could behold a cape at fea, with greater tranf- 

 port, than he did the uppermoft button of his 

 coat. But the fluctuation of the water was 

 fuch, and the turn of the tide fo flow, that it 

 was yet fome time before he durft venture to 



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