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(23) ey now found that a very considerable number e crew, seaman, soldiers, and some petty of were in the same situation with themselves, h many who had reached the rocks below, had ed, in attempting to ascend; what that situa as they were still to learn; at present they had d immediate death, but they were yet to ener cold, nakedness, wind, rain, and the per beating of the spray of the sea, for a difficult, ious, and doubtful chance of escape.

very few minutes after Mr. Rogers had gain rock, an universal shriek, which still vibrates r ears, and, in which, the voice of female s was lamentably distinguishable, announced eadful catastrophe; in a few moments all was d, except the warring winds, and beating waves; eck was buried in the remorseless deep, and atom of her was ever after discoverable.

s perished the Halsewell.

at an aggravation of woe was this dreadful, tremendous blow, to the yet trembling, and ly half saved wretches, who were hanging the sides of the horrid cavern.

er the bitterest three hours which misery ever ened into ages, the day broke on them; they ound that had the country been alarmed by ns of distress which they had continued to or many hours before the ship struck, but from the violence of the storm were unheard, ould neither be observed by the people from, as they were completely ingulphed in the ca and over hung by the cliff, nor did any part wreck remain to point out their probable place ge; below, no boat could live to search them d had it been possible to have acquainted who would wish to assist them, with their exact on, no ropes could be conveyed into the cavi facilitate their escape.