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caufe it is that which is moft cafily procured in 

 a fhip. 



There were on board, however, feveral per- 

 fons who, although they had never before been 

 at Tea, experienced no effect from the motion 

 of the fhip. Such a conftitution is very defirable 

 when a man undertakes long voyages ; for it is 

 difficult to exprefs the unpleafant feelings occa- 

 fioned by this fpafmodic affection, which, ex- 

 tending to every part of the body, throws a perfon 

 into fuch a ftate of languor, that he hangs to 

 life, only becaufe he has a feeble profpect of a 

 period to his fufferings. 



From our departure, till the 5th of October, 

 the wind* were faint and variable, between the 

 weft and the north ; they blew afterwards pretty 

 frefh, varying from north-eavt to north, till our 

 arrival at Teneriffe. We were not free from 

 uneaiinefs refpecling this increafe of the wind; 

 for, in our fituation, it might become fatal to us. 

 Incumbered in every part, with a lading far too 

 considerable for the fhip's bearings, we might 

 ovcrfet in a heavy fea,the ftowage being very in- 

 completely arranged. It was in this ftate of dif- 

 order that we had failed, although the National 

 AfTembly had, near eight months before, decreed 

 that the voyage fhould take place. 



On the nth of October, about fifty five mi-? 



nutcs after ten o'clock, there was an eclipfe of 



b 4 the 



