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the old man replied, that on founding, he 

 faw the lead in the water at a diftance of 

 many fathoms more than he had feen it be- 

 fore ', that therefore the water was become 

 clear all of a fudden, which he looked up- 

 on as a certain fign of an impending hur- 

 ricane in the fea. Mr. Cock likewife faw 

 the excefTive clearnefs of the water. He 

 therefore gave immediate orders for launch- 

 ing the boat, and towing the yacht, fo that 

 they arrived before night in a fafe harbour. 

 But before they had quite reached it the 

 waves began to rife more and more, and 

 the water was as it were boiling, though 

 no wind was perceptible. In the enfuing 

 night the hurricane came on, and raged 

 with fuch violence, that not only many 

 fhips were loft, and the roofs were torn off 

 from the houfes, but even Mr. Cock's yacht 

 and other fhips, though they were in fafe 

 harbours, were by the wind, and the vio- 

 lence of the fea, waftied fo far on iliore, 

 that feveral weeks elapfed, before they could 

 be got off. 



An old Dutch fkipper faid, that he had 

 once caught a dogfifh in the bay of New 

 Torky which being cut open, had a quan- 

 tity of eels in his ftomach. 



November the 1 8th. Mr. Bartram fhewed 



me an earthen pot, which had been found 



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