PORTER’S JOURNAL. 
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a. rare specimen of literature, I hope I shall be pardoned for giv¬ 
ing an exact copy of it. 
June 14th 1812. 
Ship Sukey John Macy 7^ Months out 150 Barrels 75 days 
from Lima No oil Since Leaving that Port. Spanyards Very Sa¬ 
vage Lost on the Braziel Bank John Seaiin Apprentice to Capt 
Benjamin Worth Fell from the fore top sail Yard In A Gale of 
Wind. Left Diana Capt paddock 14 day Since 250 Barrels I 
Leave this port this Day With 250 Turpen 8 Boat Load Wood 
Yesterday Went Up to Patts Landing East Side, to the Starboard 
hand of the Landing 1| Miles Saw 10.0 Turpen 20 Rods A part 
Road Very Bad 
Yours Forevif 
JOHN MACY 
Charles’ Island affords the same inducements for vessels to 
touch at as Hood’s Island, but the harbour is not so good. It is 
formed on the N.W. part by a projecting point, off which lies a re¬ 
markable high, black, ragged rock, which, from its appearance, 
I have been induced to call Rock Dismal. Shipping lie in twelve 
fathoms, beyond the small reef which shelters the landing; the 
bottom is sandy, but vessels have had their cables cut by scatter¬ 
ing rocks. The landing here is very good ; and, at the time lieu¬ 
tenant Downes was on shore, a torrent of very fine water, many 
feet deep, discharged itself near the beach; but as it was raining 
constantly while he was on shore, and the mountains were com¬ 
pletely capt with the clouds, added to which, as the banks of the 
deep ravine, worn away by the stream, clearly shewed that the 
torrent had subsided ten feet within a very short period, it was 
evident to us, that this stream owed its existence to temporary 
rains alone; and this opinion was not only confirmed by those on 
board the Essex who had been there before, but by some person 
w r ho had bountifully left on the island, near the post-office, several 
articles for such persons as might be left there in distress, and? 
besides a suit of clothes, tinder-box, and a barrel of bread, was 
left a cask of water. It is known that in the centre of the island 
