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occurring of another fhip running foul of the 

 George and Bridget, the timid nature of poor 

 Mac — reprefented to his imagination a thou- 

 fand terrors, and, in the hurried impulfe of vivid 

 apprehenfion, cruelly augmented the alarm : 

 in all the dread of finking to the bottom, he 

 accufed his lucklefs ftars, called the fates re- 

 lent lefs, uttered loud ejaculations for his fafety^ 

 rmd called that moment only, unhappy, which 

 had led him to the George and Bridget. But 

 the fhip afterwards made a fhort and favorable 

 pafTage, and is arrived in fafety at Barbadoes 

 — where poor Mac — yet lives to relate all his 

 perils by fea, and his troubles on fhore % 



* The George and Bridget afterwards funk in the 

 harbour of Cape St. Nicholas Mole : and poor unfortunate 

 Mac — focn after his arrival at St. Domingo fell a viclim 



to the yellow fever. 



