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^ Loss of His Majesty's ship Centaur, Sept. 23, 1782, 153 
/ Loss by fire of the French East India Company's 
vesselthePrince, July 26, 1752, - - - 165 
Loss by fire of the Hibernia, - - - - 175 
Loss of the Nottingham Galley, on Boon Island, near 
New England, December 11, 1710, - - - 177 
The shipwreck of M. De Brisson, on the coast of 
Barbary, ,----..- i88 
Extraordinary famine in the American ship Peggy, 
in 1765, 205 
Loss of the Magpie, and escape of two of her crew, 209 
Adventures of Madame Denoyer, between the Ba- 
hama Islands and Cuba, in 1766, - - - 221 
Shipwreck of a Spanish Frigate, on the coast of 
Mexico, in 1678, 226 
Loss of a Jamaica sloop, in 1711, - - 242 
Loss of the Russian ship St. Peter, on the coast of 
Beering's Island, in 1741, .... 276 
Shipwreck of the Medusa, on her voyage to Senegal, 296 
Destruction of the Essex by a whale, - - - 398 
Wreck of the ship President, Charleston Line 
Packet, 402 
A tragical tale of the sea, 405 
The whale, ---,•., 410 
