20 4 PASSAGE TO MILFORD HAVEN. 



but fuch was our luck, that after being in 

 fight of the lights on the fmalls, we were by 

 contrary winds blown oppofite to Arklow 

 lands ; a violent gale arofe which prefently 

 blew a ftorm, that lafted thirty-fix hours, 

 in which, under a reefed mainfail, the fliip 

 drifted up and down wearing, in order to 

 keep clear of the coafts. 



No wonder this appeared to me, a frefh- 

 water failor, as a fiorm, when the oldefl 

 men on board reckoned it a violent one ; 

 the wind blew in furious gufts ; the waves 

 ran very high j the cabbin windows burit 

 open, and the lea pouring in fet every thing 

 afloat, and among the reft a poor lady, who 

 had fpread her bed on the floor. We had 

 however the fatisfa6tion to find, by trying 

 the pumps every watch, that the (hip made 

 little water. I had more time to attend thefe 

 circumflances than the reft of the paflengers, 

 being the only one in feven who efcaped with- 

 out being fick. It pleafed God to preferve us, 

 but we did not caft anchor in Milford Haven, 

 till Tuefday morning the 2 ad, at one o'clock. 



It is much to be wifhed, that there were 

 fome means of being fecure of packets fail- 

 ing regularly, inftead of waiting till there is 

 fuch a number of paifengers, as fatisfies the 

 owner, and captain j with the pod-office pac- 

 kets there is this fat isf action, and a great one 

 it is; the contrary conduct is fo perfectly 



deteftablc, 

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