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(16) that the tide was carrying me rapidly to land from the vessel, and that I should soon once more touch terra firma.

"This expectation was a cordial that revived my exhausted spirits: I took courage, and left myself still to the same all-directing Power that had had hitherto preserved me, scarcely doubting that I should soon reach the land. Nor was I mistaken; for, a short time more, without effort or exertion, and without once turning from off my back, I found myself strike against the sandy beach. Overjoyed to the highest pitch of transport at my providential deliverance, I made a convulsive spring, and ran up a little distance on the shore; but wa so weak and worn down by fatigue, and so unable to clear my stomach of the salt water with which it was loaded, that I suddenly grew deadly sick, and apprehended that had only exchanged one death  another; and in a minute or two fainted away."

Campbell's overland Journey India, Page159-176.

Narrative of the Loss of the Halsewell East Indiaman on the coast of Dorsetshire, January 1786.

HE Halsewell East-Indiamen, of 758 tons bu then, commanded by Richard Pierce Es sailed through the Downs on Sunday the 1st of January, 1785, and the next morning being a brea of Dunnose, it fell calm.

Monday the 2d of January. at three in the afternoon, a breeze sprung up from the South, wh they ran in shore to land the pilot, but very thi weather coming on in the evening, and the wind bastling, at nine in the evening they were obliged and oi in eighteen fathom water, furled their top sails, but could not  their courses, the snow falling thick, and freezing as it fell.