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the same time, corked and plastered over with rosin 
came up, full of water, with the cork inverted. This we 
could not mistake, as the head was covered with red wax 
previous to the application of the rosin, and upon its 
reaching the deck it was indeed still corked, but the 
waxed end was undermost, in the neck of the bottle. 
Another wine-bottle had the pitch remaining entire on 
its mouth, but the inside was nearly full of water, in 
which also the cork was swimming. Two other bottles 
were full of water, but the corks and rosin of these were 
in the same stat? as when let down. The water in the 
inside was not fresher than before its entrance. 
FINIS. 
T. C. Hansard, Printer, Peterborough-court, Fieet^street. 
