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Excerpt from The Melancholy Narrative of the Distressful Voyage and Miraculous Deliverance of Captain David Harrison of the Sloop, Peggy, of New-York, on His Voyage From Fyal, of of the Western Islands, to New York
Upep {toppers and got a runner and tackle as a fupport to the mall lying too under a ballanced mainfail, as it blew ex tremely hard. The next day the wind {hifting to the W. N. W. And blowing more violently, we wore thip, and laid her head to the Southward; but about eight o'clock in the mornmg, my two fore main fhrouds, on the ftarboard fide, were carried away, which obliged us to get Up another runner and tackle for the additional fecurity of the mall. Till the 12th of November, the weather was intolerably bad, the feas excefiively heavy, and the continued peals of thunder joined to our incapacity of carrying any fail, unlefs for a few hours, threw a horror over our fituation, which is not to be conceived by 'any but thofe who have unhappily experienced fomething like our circumfiances.
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