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27 inches 7 lines, announced to us tempefluous 

 <; they blew from the weft and fouth-weft, 

 raifin*r a dreadful fea, which often broke on 

 d : there came one, about five o'clock in 

 the afternoon, which partly taking us under the 

 mizen chains, ftruck the fhip's quarter with 

 fuch violence, that fcveral of our feamen thought 

 that we had touched on a rock ; the fhock was 

 terrible, and fome of the ftore-rooms leaked im- 

 mediately after. 



hen a heavy tea happens to ftrike a veflel 



on the beam, the chains are frequently damaged, 



the water lodging under the bFoad planks which 



keep them off from the tide. Would it not be 



an improvement to fubftitute to thcie planks 



hions, on which the chains of the chain- 



B fhould reft; or, if the planks were fuffercd 



main, could not a fheathing be adapted to 



prevent the tea from acting on them ? 



The violence of the roll had made the Admiral 



fall againft one of the angles of a bird-organ, 



a prei'ent for fome chief of the 



s. The furgcon thought that the flrfl of 



ribs had been fractured ; the pain was 



ate, that the Admiral, in fncczing, fainted 



but he foon recovered. 



the night there was in the atmofphere a 

 ectric matter, a part of which 

 y means of our conductors; 



at 



