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had tried all methods that Sea- men ule upon 

 fuch occafions, or he could think of, all in 

 vain, and that the Leak encreafed, he came 

 penfively to confult me. Difcourfing witK 

 him about it, and underftanding that the Ship 

 was Cieled within fo that though the Leak 

 ' might poflibly be in the fore-part, it would 

 fill the whole Cavity betwixt the Cieling and 

 the Planks, and fo run into the Hold at all the 

 Crevices of the Cieling up and down : I thereup- 

 on conceive, that where it burfl; in betwixt the 

 Cieling and the Planks,itmuft needs make fome 

 Noife.He told me,they had endeavoured to find 

 it out that way, and according to cuftom had 

 clapt Cans to their Ears to hear with ; but 

 the working of the Ship, the Tackle and the ' 

 Sea made fuch a Noife, that they could dif- 

 cover nothing thereby. I happily bethought 

 my felf of the Speaking Trumpet and ha- 

 ving one which I had contrived for fbme 

 other Conveniences, of a differing lhape from 

 the common Ibrts, I bid him take it and ap- 

 ply the broad end to the fide of the Ship, 

 the narrow end to his Ear, and it would en- 

 creafe his Hearing as much as it augmented 

 the Voice the other way, and would ward 

 the Ear too from the confufion of foreign 

 Noife. Upon the firfl: application, accord- 

 ingly they heard it, tho' it happened to he 

 at a confiderable diftance ^ and when they 

 removed the Trumpet nigher, they heard 

 it as if it had been the Current of a mighty 

 River, even fo dillinftly, as to have Ap~ 

 prehenfionsof the bignefs and figure of the 

 Hole that the Water came in at fb that 

 cutting there the Seeling of the Shii), they 

 itnmcdiately ftopt the Leak^ Ja 



