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The {ky blackened ; the tearing winds roared; 

 and the tumid fea, gathering into frightful 

 mountains, rufhed before the wind in boif- 

 terous loudnefs, threatening us with inflant 

 defirudion. Tofled from wave to wave, and 

 dafhed and rolled about, amidi the broken 

 mountains of water, every moment feemed 

 Jikely to be our lail ; for any one of the heavy 

 feas might have upfet our nttle bark, or have 

 broken over us, and fent us at once, to the bot- 

 tom. Befet by multitudes of rugged and liquid 

 hills, rupturing on all quarters, and rolling 

 and tumbling one over another towards her, 

 fo fmall a bo<it feemed to have no chance, 

 nor even a poffibilitY of maintaining; herfelf 

 upon the rude and ever changing furface. 

 From the deep, fwelling of the fea, together 

 with the conftant agitation and breaking of 

 the waves, the failors could not take fufficient 

 depth to pull fteadily with their oars ; nor 

 could the boat be made to obey the helm. 

 At one moment we were raifed, as it were, 

 on a pinnacle— at the next ingulphed in deep 

 fliade between two roaring furges, towering 

 high above us, and feeming to fay, " Ye 

 Jjhall never rife again/' Yet, quickly, were 



