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t^rs in painful folicitude, but faw no relaxa- 

 tion of the ftorm. Tremendous mountains 

 at one moment concealed the wretched fhip 

 from our view : at another we appeared to 

 be enveloped, together, in the fame dark and 

 difmal gulf You will conceive our fenfa- 

 tions upon feeling that, in one inftant more, 

 this deep pit of the ocean might be the grave 

 of every foul on board. Signals, denoting 

 the extreme of danger, were repeated : the 

 fea rolled in terrific dlforder : we bent our 

 eyes in vain towards the veflel, deploring 

 her threatened fate, and our own inability to 

 prevent it ! Night came on. We loft her ia 

 darknefs, and— beiicld her no more ! 



Heaven grant that fhe may be in fafety ! 

 But wc all fear (lie cannot have withftood the 

 violence of the gale, which continued until 

 morning, and throughout the whole of the 

 following day, with unren;iitted fury. Our 

 anxiety w^as alfo m.uch augmented, from hav- 

 ing feen mafts, fpars, and other pieces of 

 wreck, float by the fide of our fliip, when the 

 ftorm abated. Until nov7 I had regarded the 

 failing in company with a fleet as a kind of 



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