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308 REMARKABLE SHIPWRECK.
Now there is as yet no such thing to be observed • nop
does there appear to be any sort of combustible substance
mixed with the earth or rubbish. Both above and below,
it seems to have been buried in common earth ; -which
could naturally have no share in the burning of the town.
i( This may make it to be believed, that it was rather
buried by some extraordinary effects of an earthquake
which happened at the s.ame time, than by burning matter
thrown out of the mountain. That it was set on fire by
burning matter from the mountain, cannot well be doubted :
but that it was buried by the burning matter from the
mountain, appears not to have been at all the case.—In
whatever manner the fate of this town was brought upon
it, it seems to have been as dreadful a one as could have
been inflicted by Nature.
“ I will trouble you with but one other observation
about it, which is, that the inhabitants seem to have had
some dismal warning to forsake it; for in the digging of
above a mile and a half, which they compute the several
windings and turnings at, ...they have as yet found but one
dead body.”
REMARKABLE SHIPWRECK.
[Communicated by Mr. Collyer, of Church Street, MUe End, New Town.~]
Lieut. Drummond, of the Royal Navy, having re-
ceived permission from the Lords of the Admiralty, to serve
as master of a trading vessel, and continue in that line of
employment during their pleasure, obtained soon after the
command of the Anastatia merchant-ship.—On the 22d of
September 1783, he sailed from Providence, in the State
pf Rhode Island; and on the 24th of that month, from stress
of weather and contrary winds, bore up for Rhode Island,
and anchored in the Narraganset passage. The gale
continued to increase, and at half past 5, A. NI. the storm
.became
Now there is as yet no such thing to be observed • nop
does there appear to be any sort of combustible substance
mixed with the earth or rubbish. Both above and below,
it seems to have been buried in common earth ; -which
could naturally have no share in the burning of the town.
i( This may make it to be believed, that it was rather
buried by some extraordinary effects of an earthquake
which happened at the s.ame time, than by burning matter
thrown out of the mountain. That it was set on fire by
burning matter from the mountain, cannot well be doubted :
but that it was buried by the burning matter from the
mountain, appears not to have been at all the case.—In
whatever manner the fate of this town was brought upon
it, it seems to have been as dreadful a one as could have
been inflicted by Nature.
“ I will trouble you with but one other observation
about it, which is, that the inhabitants seem to have had
some dismal warning to forsake it; for in the digging of
above a mile and a half, which they compute the several
windings and turnings at, ...they have as yet found but one
dead body.”
REMARKABLE SHIPWRECK.
[Communicated by Mr. Collyer, of Church Street, MUe End, New Town.~]
Lieut. Drummond, of the Royal Navy, having re-
ceived permission from the Lords of the Admiralty, to serve
as master of a trading vessel, and continue in that line of
employment during their pleasure, obtained soon after the
command of the Anastatia merchant-ship.—On the 22d of
September 1783, he sailed from Providence, in the State
pf Rhode Island; and on the 24th of that month, from stress
of weather and contrary winds, bore up for Rhode Island,
and anchored in the Narraganset passage. The gale
continued to increase, and at half past 5, A. NI. the storm
.became