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and Dover, forms a projecting point, and that Flanders 

 near Calais forms a point projecting towards. England ; 

 that both points consist of the same kind of earth, viz., 

 of high perpendicular chalk cliffs, kritvallar ; that the 

 land on both sides has the same fades and appearance ; 

 consists of a collection of round and long-sloping hills of 

 chalk, kullriga och langsluttande hogder af 

 Krita, so that if one who had seen the coast of England 

 should get to see the coast of France here, and did not 

 know that it was such, he would certainly believe that it 

 was the English coast, vallen, and English hills. On 

 the English coast we saw here and there some beautiful 

 churches, small towns, &c. The ploughed fields lay on 

 the hills, but trees were here rare, and we did not notice 

 that they were divided into enclosures by means of 

 hedges. 



In the evening a multitude of Porpoises, Marsvin 

 eller Isor, tumbled about everywhere in the sea around 

 our ship. 



A ,Burial at Sea. 



In the evening, a woman, one of the religious fugitives 



from Pfaltz in Germany was buried according to the 



usual custom of the sea. She was one of sixty men, 



women and children, who were now going with us over 



to the English colonies in America, to settle there. The 



funeral was performed in this way, that after theyhad 



bound her in sailcloth, a quantity of coals in an old sack 



were fastened to the feet, when she was laid on a board, 



and then plunged from the board into the sea, when she 



sank at once to the bottom. Some Psalms were sung 



first. 



The gth August, 1748. 



Resan. The Voyage. At daybreak the ship was 

 allowed to drive forward with the tidal current as long as 



