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 MELANCHOLY CONSEQUENCES

OF TWO

SEA STORMS, &c.

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''An account of the Shipwreck of a Portuguese Snow,. on her passage from Goa to Madras-in the year 1782, related by one of the Sufferers.''

T was now the eightenth of May when we sailed from Goa. The hemisphere had been for some days overcast with clouds: some light showers of rain had fallen: and it certainly did not nd to raise my spirits, and free me from my ominous apprehensions, to hear that those circumstances indicated an approaching gale of wind. I observed, moreover, that the vessel was much too deep in the water, being greatly overloaded-that she was in meny respects defective, and, as the seaman say, ill. und, and in short very unfit to encounter a gale of wind of any violence. I scorned, however, to