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AN ACCOUNT OF 
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SEPTEMBER. 
OCTOBER. 
Wednefday 
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away the blocks from under the vefiel; but the accident 
was providentially difcovered in time, and all hands inflan tly 
went to work, with the utmofl expedition, to fill up the 
trench, and fecure the vefiel from falling off the flocks, 
which kept them employed until near morning, when they 
found the danger far greater than what even they had fup- 
pofed, for fome of the blocks having been difplaced by the 
water, they were obliged to get wedges and fet her up, in 
order to reinflate them, and get her once more fecured; 
which being accomplished, they contrived a bank or dam 
to keep out the tide. This accident was the more unlucky, 
as three of their bell workmen were then ill, which, with 
the abfence of thofe gone to the war, made the labour fall 
heavier on the reft.—It may not be unnecefiary, perhaps, to 
give an account how this bank, to keep out the tide, was 
formed:—The pinnace was laid a-ground, diredlly before 
the vefiel, where they wifhed to flop the tide; two holes 
were bored in her bottom, and fhe was filled with flones, in 
order to fink herat about a foot diflance, oppofite the pin¬ 
nace, was raifed a dry wall of large flones, which was carried 
round each fide of the vefiel beyond high-water mark; it 
was lined on the infide with final! branches and twigs, fail- 
ened with flakes and Hones, to prevent their wafhing away; 
fand; was then thrown on thefe branches, which, alt together, 
com pofed a bank of four or five feet thick; and was con¬ 
tinued quite round the infide of the wall, and before the 
pinnace 
