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ferings I fliall have to fupport upon, the long 

 voyage we are about to undertake. 



Capt. Jaffray never having been on 

 board a fliip of fuch immenfe bulk, availed 

 himfelf of my neceflitles, and took the com- 

 mand of the boat, upon this excurfion. In or- 

 der to view the vaft Commerce de Marfeilles. 

 I wifli it v/ere pradicable to convey to you, in 

 words, the fenfe of grandeur with which the 

 mind is infpired on firft approaching fuch an 

 enormous floating battery ; or to paint to 

 you the fenfations excited by rowing, in a 

 fmall boat, clofe under her ftern, and her fides ; 

 but it were quite impoffible for the pen to de- 

 fcribe how diminutive we felt, and how Im- 

 menfe and wonderful (he appeared.— To 

 exprefs it by the image of the knat and the 

 camel, it were neceflary to fuppofe the former 

 the minuteft of its race, and the latter hugely 

 overgrown. Looking up from our little fkifF 

 the fight was truly awful — the figure of the 

 fliip was forgotten— -the hull appeared a moun- 

 tain, the mafts lofty obelifks ereGed upon 

 it ; and the tremendous batteries, projeding 

 from her fides, conveyed the idea of a ftu- 



