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all farther attempts; but we were fup^ 

 ported by that invifible Power, who can 

 make the moft untoward circumftauces 

 fubfervient to his gracious purpofes. 



At this time, our ufual bad weather 

 attended us ; the night too fet in long 

 before we could reach the cove we before 

 had taken flielter in j fo that we were 

 obliged to keep the boat's head to the 

 fea all night, the fea every where a-ftern 

 of us, running over hideous breakers. 

 In the morning, we defigned ftanding 

 over for that ifland in which we had ob- 

 ferved thofe ftrait and lofty trees before- 

 mentioned, and which captain Cheap 

 named Montrofe Ifland ; but as foon as 

 we opened the head-land to the weft- 

 ward of us, a fudden fquall took the 

 boat, and very near overfet her. We were 

 inftantly full of water ; but by baling 

 with our hats and hands, and any thing 

 that would hold water, we with diffi- 

 culty freed her. Under this alarming 



circum- 



