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remarkable Effects of a Shipwreck. 
lieved it might receive a striking confirmation from this catas- 
trophe, into the particulars of which I determined to examine 
accurately. I therefore obtained access to the survivors of the 
crew, and from them, but more especially from Mr. Amyat, 
the mate, I received the information which I required. 
In repeated conversations with this intelligent young man, 
I learnt that Capt. Scott, the master of the vessel, died in about 
four hours after the ship struck; and that Capt Davison, the 
passenger, died in about seven : but that the incident of their 
having eaten cherries infused in brandy was entirely without 
foundation: of this he was certain, for he saw the keg, which 
contained the cherries, staved, while Capt. Davison was en- 
deavouring to fill it with water to make grog for the crew ; 
the cherries fell on the wreck, and were immediately washed 
into the sea. Mr. Amyat expressed his surprise at the early 
death of the two masters, but could not assign any cause for 
it. He said there was no liquor of any kind saved, nor any 
sort of food ; that the whole crew were on an equality in all 
points, except that some were deeper in the water than others, 
but that the two masters had the advantage in this respect, for 
they sat on the only part of the wreck that was out of the sea, 
whereas the poor negro, who escaped almost unhurt, was per- 
haps deepest in the sea of any. He explained this in the fol- 
lowing manner. When the ship struck they cut away her 
masts to prevent her from oversetting, and after this she drifted 
over the sand bank, into what he called a “ swash” on the other 
side. Here she floated, and they let go their best bower an- 
chor, but it dragged, and the vessel struck again in a few mi- 
nutes on another bank. In this situation she lay some time, 
beating against the sand, and the sea breaking over her. In 
