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STRLNGTH OF CUllllENT. 



sels heavily laden, overshooting their ports, 

 may lose as much as three weeks by having 

 to stand away nearly to the Antilles before 

 they can get sufficiently to windward to gain 

 the port they have missed ; and even men 

 of war run a risk of carrying away spars 

 and masts in beating up. 



