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Excerpt from An Address to the Members of the Merrimack Humane Society, at Their Anniversary Meeting in Newburyport, Sept. 1, 1807
The other. Instance 18 as follows: Im1'770, thirty vessels were cast upon the sands at one time near the British-shore, and all the crews; consisting of three hundred persons, perished to a man, with the most painful circumstances of suffering. For many of them were seen hang. Ing upon the rigging and yard arms the whole course of the day and the next morning, seve ral remained in the same situation without the possibility of receiving the least assistance.
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