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(24 The only prospect which offere, was to cre long the side of the cavern, to its outward extrty, and on a ledge scarcely as broad as a man's ha to turn the corner, and endeavour to clamber the almost perpendicular precipice, whose sum was near two hundred feet from the base.

And in this desperate effort did some success whilst others, trembling with terror, and strength exhausted by mental and bodily fatigue lost their precarious footing, and perished in the tempt.

The first men who gained the summit of the were the Cook, and James Thompson, a Quamaster, by their own exertions they made their  to the land, and the moment they reached it, tened to the nearest house, and made known the tuation to their fellow sufferers

The house at which they first arrived was East too the present habitation of Mr. Garland, ste or agent to the proprietors of the Purbeck Qua who immediately got together the workmen in his direction, and with the most zealous and anim humanity; exerted every effort for the preservation of the surviving crew of this unfortunate ship; were procured with all possible dispatch, and precation taken that assistance should be spe and effectually given.

As the day advanced, more assistance was oed, and as the life preserving efforts of the fur would admit it, they crawled to the extremities covered, and presented themselves to their pr above, she stood prepared with the means the situation would permit them to exercise, to them to the summit.

Circumstantial Narrative of the logs of the Halfewe Compiled from the communications of t chief Officers, who escaped, Page 10-