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of Silver and Gold, and feveral Brafs Great 

 Guns : When one went to the bottom, his 

 Companion ftaid on board to pull him up as 

 occafion offered ; for they would truft no 

 Foreigner. Their diving Engine they contriv* 

 ed in Rngland^ which was made of Wood, fix 

 hundred weight of Lead being affixed to the 

 bottom to fink it, and lefs would not do; 

 The GlaflTes before their Eyes were three 

 Inches thick, and their Hands were at li- 

 berty to grope and faften Hooks to Chefts 

 and fuch other things as they had a mind 

 to get up. Notwithftanding the largenefs of 

 the Engine, which terrified mod of the In-, 

 habitants of the Deep, there was one large 

 Fifh that would often make at them; but 

 to guard againft him, they carried in one 

 hand a little fharp Lance, with which they 

 pricked him, then he fcoured off. They ne- 

 ver dived but in Summer time, and then on 

 calm, ferene, and fun-(hiny Days. They re- 

 late what is very remarkable. That the bot- 

 tom of the Sea where they had been, look- 

 ed like a fine Garden, abundance of things 

 (which they wanted a Name for) growing 

 in it refembling fhort Plants, and branching 

 out from the main Stocks divers ways, be- 

 ing white, hard and rugged, but did not 

 appear to be of the white Coral kind : They 



brought 



