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 of it in this part of my book, at the end of the war I was dicharged from the Hero, and returned to Greenock and engaged to go a voyage to Virginia with Captain William Clark, commander of the Ellot-now, when lying at ingle anchor in Greenock-rhode, waiting a fair wind; I got a fall down on my head againt an anchor; by which accident my head was o terribly cruhed that the blood fell down in my eyes, and in one night-time I lot my ight: which is known in and about Greenock, and is atteted by everal Gentlemen of character; and have applyedapplied [sic] to the uppoed bet Doctors in Britain for the recovery of my ight again, but to no purpoe: which is the caue of my traveling in this manner for my bread.

Having formerly promied to give an account of what I aw at the battle of Bret in Capron-bay, which I do not mind exactly whitherwhether [sic] it was in the year Fifty-nine, or Sixty; but we was lying off Palmouth on the South coat of England at anchor, being a fleet of twenty-five men of war, under the command of Admiral Hawk; at midnight the inteligenceintelligence [sic] came from France of the Bret-fleet, at which time our Admiral gave the ignal by firing a gun, which was to weigh our anchors and follow him, which was done directly, and about eleven o'clock next day we was off Bret on the coat of France, where the French fleet was coming out in great pomp and plendor: When they aw us they formed the line a head to the number of thirty great capital hips of war, and we were only twenty-five. The hip I was in was called the Hero, commanded by Captain Eatch-comb, mounted 74 Guns, our Admiral's hip was the