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obedience to my poor naiifeated ftomacli, I, 

 very humbly, required to be allowed to take 

 the loweft cot of the four, and am accordingly 

 indulged with the birth neareft the centre of 

 the fhip, where I lie with my three comrades 

 kicking, in a row, at my head. 



Our firft night has been reftlcfs and 

 difturbed — the unpleafant heaving of the 

 {hip — the creaking of bulk-heads, and 

 other noifes — ^the uneafy motion of the cot, 

 and a whole hoft of annoyances, prevented 

 me from fleeping, Ac each movement of the 

 fliip, or the cot, my feet were ftruck againft 

 the bulk-head at the bottom of the ward- 

 room ; or I was bumped upon the huge can- 

 non ftanding under me ; or had Gleghorn's feet 

 roughly prefented to my head. Some of thefe 

 evils arofe from the cot being badly flung, 

 and will be removed ; and a few days, I 

 truft, will reconcile me to thofe which cannot 

 be remedied. ' / 



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