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Atlantic, and committed the blunder of carry- 

 ing himfelf out to the Weft Indies. True it is 

 that the accident might, have occurred upon 

 any other coaft, or to a man of any other nation 

 - — but the pilot happening to be from dear 

 Cork ttfelf^ the poor fellow, you will readily 

 imagine, is teazed by the failors, as having 

 pra&ifed fomething very like — a Bull I 



We have been diverted at hearing the 

 circumftance related : but we have ftrong feel- 

 ings of fympathy towards the unfortunate pi- 

 lot, and his family ; for his wife and children 

 are left in the diftrefsful fituation of not know- 

 ing how to account for his abfence. He had 

 hoped to return home, by getting on board 

 fome veffel upon the paffage, but none fell in 

 their path, and it now remains for him to 

 take a view of the bay, into which he has 

 fleered, and return to tell the tale at Cove 

 as foon as he can. 



During the time the George and Bridget 

 remained foul of the fhip which ran aboard 

 her, and which in addition to the blow of her 

 fide, carried away her fore rigging, two of the 

 failors, from the other veffel, while in the at- 



