COMMUNICATED.

A STORM AT SEA.
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Ry Rev FITCH w. IA, LoR, Chaplain, U. s. N
Concluded from No. l.


All hands were called. Even the sick
were summoned from their hammocks.
On ee-shore no officer would venture
the ship within twenty fathoms, in so
wild blow; and the tide and the gale
were sweeping her each moment nearer
the invisible land, now impossible to be
seen through the whirling mists, a hum
d'ed lengths of the ship in the distance.
our sails, then, seemed our only saliva
'on' and yet they had been riven to a
useless mass of parcclling; while our an
eh0rs were the last resort. New topsails
therefore were bent by the already far
spent and nearly exhausted crew, while
@e Commodore, in a consultation with
'a'ee Of his principal officers, decided
mat the anchors should not be let 90 50
long as twenty fathoms swept beneath
U.s. And no sails could stand in such q
a!e' to beat of from the shore; and no
snip could tack in such a sea; and no
anc0ors' it was believed, could hold q
'a'p driven by such commotion Of the
Sa' o. if the anchors held, the shin must
swamp beneath the surge as it broke in
70, sweep above the decks, and the masts
'.' """'u' u remedy go by the board. And
wv '''e ship in her drift of another f;f.
ss,a w" minutes, might strike; and if the
sss que continued but a few hours longer
.a' ."a The wind held its point where it was
.s,l I'''y must strike on rock, or reef, or
'Sau' S"sI and in either case, in such a swell,
Ehs,.s VINO best knew the dangers would
ps s'sn .s', least the hope of rescue to a sin.


w"' nu' q Of the frigate's crew.


.,n. "ts 81 1t "a miracle' 1t served us the


' Is If the Almighty had extended led