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to stay on the isthmus for some time, in order to study its topography, scenery, climate, and 

 resources. The Rev. Acton Warburton, his brother, on receipt of the fearful news, and with 

 the fact before him that there were boats not yet accounted for which had been seen to 

 leave the ship, proceeded in a steamer from Plymouth on January 17th, in the hope that, 



RESCUE OF THE SURVIVORS OF THE <c AMAZON." 



by cruising about in the Channel and entrance to the Bay of Biscay, some traces might be 

 found of his missing relative. All was in vain ; no further vestiges of the crew or passengers 

 were found. A few days afterwards a homeward-bound vessel picked up at sea, among other 

 fragments of the wreck, three settees, or backed forms, which had stood on the deck of the 

 Amazon, and which had been lashed together, doubtless for the purpose of supporting some 

 of the crew or passengers in the water. Other pieces of the wreck were washed ashore on 

 diffei'ent parts of the coast, and a piece of burnt timber was picked up near the Eddystone, 



