TRAVELS IN 
their fecret abodes, fuddenly fpread terror and de«* 
vailation ; and the wide ocean, which, a few mo- 
ments pail, was gentle and placid, is now thrown 
into difcrder, and heaped into mountains, whole 
white curling creds feern to fweep the fkies ! 
This furious gale continued near two days and 
nights, and not a little damaged our fails, cabin 
furniture, and date-rooms, befides retarding our 
padage. The dorm having abated, a lively gale 
from M. W. continued four or five days, when 
drifting to N. and laftly to N. E. on the tenth of 
our departure from cape Henlopen, early in the 
morning, we defcried a fail adern, and in a fhort 
time difcovered it to be capt. Mafon, who foon 
came up with us. We hailed each other, being 
joyful to meet again, after fo many dangers. He 
differed greatly by the gale, but providentially 
made a good harbour within cape Hatteras, As he 
ran by us, he threw on board ten or a dozen bafs, 
a large and delicious fifh, having caught a great 
number of them whilft he was detained in harbour* 
He got into Charledon that evening, and we the 
next morning, about eleven o’clock. 
There are few objedds out at fea to attra£l the 
notice of the traveller, but what are fublime, aw- 
ful, and majdtic : the feas themfelves, in a tem- 
ped, exhibit a tremendous fcene, where the winds 
affert their power, and, in furious confiidl, feem to 
fet the ocean on fire. On the other hand, nothing 
can be more fublime than the view of the encir- 
cling horizon, after the turbulent winds have taken, 
their flight, and the lately agitated bofom of the 
deep has again become calm and pacific ; the gen- 
tic moon riling in dignity from the ead, attended 
by thoufands of glittering orbs } the luminous ap- 
pearance 
