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further purfuit was hopelefs, and the boatmen 

 unwillingly gave up the chace. Even Mac — 

 whofe expectations, when he firft defcried the 

 fliip, had affured him of fuccefs, now difcover- 

 ed that the further he advanced, the further he 

 was left behind. 



Ever without deliberation, poor unhap- 

 py man, he now yielded to the impulfe of 

 difappointment, and threw himfelf down in 

 the boat, in all the anguifti of defpair, lament- 

 ing his cruel fortune, and curling his thought- 

 lels head, for not haying fecured a boat when 

 firft he reached the fhore. But as it was not 

 among his qualities to profit by experience, he 

 precipitated himfelf, in the very next ftep of 

 his proceedings, into further error and confu- 

 fion. To deliberate was no part of his fyf- 

 tern. Ever adventurous, and devoid of me- 

 thod, he rufhed head-long into a gulf yet deep- 

 er and deeper ; although a fingle moment of 

 fteady contemplation might have extricated 

 him from all his troubles. 



When the purfuit was found to befruit- 

 lefs, and he defpaired of coming up with the 

 Lord Sheffield^ inftead of defiring to be put 



