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situation was, in the dreadful storm that sue- chap. 
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ceeded. Landsmen are very apt to magnify the * — 
dangers they encounter by sea; but it will 
appear that in this instance there was little room 
for amplification. At mid-day we stood opposite 
to the Light-house of the Canal ; this bore only 
ten miles distant, towards the west : a calm, 
accompanied by a heavy sea, prevented our 
approach. During the evening, the crew were 
employed working the pumps. 
November 7. — At sun-rise, the wind had Dreadful 
gained considerable force, and the sails were lempcst- ' 
reefed. We still discerned the mouth of the 
Canal, and even the light-house on the Asiatic 
side. About ten, we took in all the reefs in 
the main-topsail ; and at noon, the wind still 
increasing, struck the topsail-yards. A tre- 
mendous sea rolled over the deck, from one side 
to the other; and the water in the hold increasing 
fast, all hands were called to the pumps, which 
were kept working continually. At four in the 
afternoon we had our last view of the Canal, 
distant about eight leagues. Within half an 
hour afterwards, the Black Sea afforded a spec- 
tacle which can never be forgotten by those who 
saw it. We were steering with a hard gale and 
heavy sea from s.s.w. when there appeared, in 
the opposite horizon, clouds, in the form of 
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