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heaving the lead, found she was in a great depth of 

 water. Captain Clarke from Denina, in N. lat 36. 

 24. between nine and ten in the morning, had his 

 ship shaken and strained as if she had struck upon 

 a rock, so that the seams of the deck opened, and 

 thv compass was overturned in the binnacle. The 

 master of a vessel bound to the American islands, 

 being in N. lat. 23", W. long. 40 . and writing in 

 his cabin, heard a violent noise, as he imagined, 

 in the steerage; and while he was asking what the 

 matter was, the ship was put into a strange agita- 

 tion, and seemed as if she had been suddenly jerked 

 up and suspended by a rope fastened to the mast- 

 head. He immediately started up with great terror 

 and astonishment: and looking out of the cabin 

 window, saw land, as he took it to be, at the distance 

 of about a mile. But, coming upon the deck, the 

 land was no more to be seen, but he perceived a 

 violent current cross' the ship's way to the leeward. 

 In about a minute, this current returned with great 

 impetuosity, and at a league's distance he saw 

 three craggy-pointed rocks throwing up waters of 

 various colours resembling fire. This phenomenon, 

 in about two minutes ended in a black cloud, which 

 ascended very heavily. After it had risen above 

 the horizon, no rocks were to .be seen ; though 

 the cloud, still ascending, was long visible, the 

 weather being extremely clear. Between nine and 

 ten in the morning, another ship, 40 leagues west 

 of St. Vincent, was so strongly agitated, that the 

 anchors, which were lashed, bounced up, and the 

 jnen were thrown a foot and a half perpendicularly 



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