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received. Also, that neither vessels nor boats can with 

 any kind of safety approach the vs^reck; neither can 

 boats live in the surf outside. 



That from the period of the ship grounding, a high 

 rolling sea, commencing at nearly a mile to seaward, has 

 continued with more or less violence to drive her fur- 

 ther on the beach ; she now lies imbedded in sand at a 

 depth of about ten feet, the drawback of the surf leaving 

 her at times nearly dry as far as the gangways. To 

 steady her in her present position, a stream chain has 

 been bent to an anchor buried in the sand on the beach ; 

 and by working the hand and chain pumps, various 

 descriptions of provisions and small stores, which have 

 withstood the effects of wet, have been got out of the 

 holds, and landed for present consumption. The whole 

 frame of the ship is much loosened, the fastenings of the 

 iron knees on the main and lower decks, with the butts 

 and scarphs of the shelves, clumps, and waterways on 

 both decks have started; the copper much wrinkled 

 throughout, many sheets being forced off about the four- 

 teen foot draught ; the rudder is gone, the pentles short 

 ofiF, and the deck and deck transern started. The great 

 serious injury done to the ship is from about the main 

 chain lockers, to the fore hatchway, where she is bilged, 

 the keel, keelson, and flooring being forced up, the sup- 

 porters in the holds upset, and when labouring in the 

 surf, previously to her driving so far up on the beach, 

 the lower midship parts, with the chain cables and 

 tanks, worked as if about to separate from the upper 

 body of the ship. Several pieces of the bottom plank- 

 ing, which appear to be of her garboard streak, and 

 above it, have been washed up on the shore. 



