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lhape from the common forts, I bid him take it and ap- 
ply the broad end to the fide of the Ship, the* narrow 
end to his Ear, and it would encreafe his Hearing as much 
as it augmented the Voice the other way, and would 
ward the Ear too from the Confufion of Foreign Noife* 
Upon the firfl application, accordingly they heard it, 
tho' it happen'd to be at a confiderabie diuance ; and 
when they removed the Trumpet nigher, they heard 
it as if it had been the Current of a mighty River, 
even fo diflin&ly, as to have Apprehenfions of the 
bignefs and Figure of the Hole that the Water came in 
at ; Co that cutting there the Seeling of the Ship, they 
immediately ft opt the Leak. 
In the Sea I faw many little things which the Seamen 
call Carvels 5 they are like a Jelly or Starch that is made 
with a Caft of Blew in it ; they fwim like a fmall Sheeps 
Bladder above the Water, downwards there are long fi- 
brous firings, fome whereof I have found near half a 
yard long. This I take to be a fort of Sea-Plant, and 
the firings its Roots growing in the Sea, as Duck-weed 
does in Ponds. It may be reckon'd among the Potential 
Cauteries ; for when we were one day becalm'd, getting 
fome to make Obfervations thereof, the fportful People 
rub'd it on one anothers Hands and Faces, and where.it 
touch'd it would make it look very red, and make it 
fmart worfe than a Nettle. In my return for England 
we {truck a Hiuksbill Turtle, in whofe Guts I found ma- 
ny of thefe Carvels; fo that it's manifeft they feed 
thereon. J Tis commonly afTerted by the Seamen, that 
they can fmeil the Pines at Virginia feveral Leagues at 
Sea before they fee Land, but I could receive no fadsfadi- 
on as to this Point ; I could not difcern any fuch thing 
when at a moderate diftance, I fear much of this may 
be attributed to Fancy for one day there came three or 
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