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TTo the PRINTER of the GAZETTEER,lt;H£ following extract from a letter wrote by a _ young gentleman of Winfhire, who went p.T fenger in a ihip bound for Jamaica, contains an account of inch a fingular deliverance, that it is wcil u oitl'ths publL notice. It is off-red to your paper ; aru^by inferring it you will oblige your humble’fer-vant, R. w.’Ids dated from Key Largo, a final! Ifland in the Gulph of KiorKla, near Hie main land.Tonsured Sir,“ While! am now wrir.ng thefe lines, mv dear Ltd r is, I doubt not, wiih ],h v. on. ted affcrftion, wai’i'.; to hear lt;*f our arr:\ i in King-Road, BriftoJ $ ru: 'Or Ah.nr ty,in h;* mnnite vidkiom. has liioughtp: o:. y t poit.i :i that *happy ir.ter%'ievv, :ill hisdi-**. vine w'.i be ::r. r : tul:y accorr.plithed. Let ine, my dear r, h; « ttil you, tli ,t, bryond the moil land _r.,i-v .-p-.ctali' n- human nature could form, I ani r.: . •• 1* .• ell. All my troubles aj e amply repaired• . : • -* niaV: e.i idta*' I n .w Lcl wi tiie never*failing:„l'u of ' u. good Gt d.li 1 he melt dreadful .hurricane ever rerrfernbejed this part of the world met us on the 27th of Sept.; 7 9, in the mornings which by noon drove us out lt;.f - he (-uiph on the main land. The velfei received :o much damage by linking, that we loan Lad three feet waiter in our hold ; and the wind increafcd with that irrefiihble fury, tliat u became iinpofllble to Rand o . the Tea. In this lit nation Hie floated, and deepened .0 fait with the water ...emade, that we all took leave of each other, and prepared for that death we judged inevitable i;i a few minutes. The wind then came with redoubled rage, dr^ve her over reefs, rocks and fhoals, carried away all our mads, rudder and bow-fprit, till fhe at lait ftuck fail among the tops of trees v in a large wood.* How incxpreffible was our joy and thanks when we' law them ahde ; we then hoped ourfelves tafe; and though the fea was continually Leaking in torrents over us, yet fhe remained unmova1 ly nxed, and fo continued till the ftjrm abated, vlh-.n fhe fixed on fhe~-ground 5 and when the tea left us we had net :wo *lt; water under us, though we juft before had been u ven in there, wlien the veflel her,e*f drew near nxu net. We v-ere thusfaved yv a molt miraculous terp^htion of Divine'Providence, though in a mclancho’y place, fiurrounded with dreary, ba*j woods, peitiferous Hies, and*blood-thirfty favage^» wp^rhehleave ; ; but after oeing four days . wreck, which time we employed in fitting ourlong^; boat to carry us to iome port, we difc jvered ,a friialL iail, which loon faw us j tod the Captain cafiie ca
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Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jul 28, 1770
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