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could not only judge of the nearnefs of the thunder 
by the tremor and fhaking of the fhip, and the re- 
port inftantaneoufly following the flafh ; but we could 
alfo hear feveral of the dallies fall into the water clofe 
upon the fhip. 
We reckoned, that the firft clap, which burft at 
the main-mart, was what damaged the mart; the 
lecond having burrt betwixt the main-mart and 
mizen-maft. 
At this time we came to an anchor, and conti- 
nued till day-light, that we might examine into the 
damage we had received ; for, as pieces of the mart 
were carried to all places of the fhip, we imagined, 
th at all the marts had been hurt. 
At day-light we found, that the fore-mart and 
mizen-maft had efcaped, and the main-mart had 
fuffered as follows : 
All the main-top-gallant-maft (which is the upper- 
moft piece of the mart) from the rigging at the top of 
it, to the cap at the head of the main-top-maft, was 
entirely carried away, part falling over-board, and part 
into the fhip in different places. The main-top- 
mart had great pieces carried from it, from the hunes 
down to the cap, at the head of the main-mart, fo 
that it could but juft ftand, being hardly rtrong enough 
to bear its own weight, and that of its rigging. 
The main-mart being compofed of three pieces, to- 
wards the top of it, thofe of the Tides, being of oak, 
called the cheeks, were not hurt ; but the middle- 
moft part, being of fir, was fhivered in feveral places, 
and pieces were carried out out of it 6 or 7 inches 
in diameter, and from 10 to 12 feet long, and this 
in a circular defcending manner from the parrel of 
the 
