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Compassions called for. An essay of profitable reflections on miserable spectacles
Compassions called for. An essay of profitable reflections on miserable spectacles. : To which is added, A faithful relation of some late, but strange occurrences that call for an awful and useful consideration. Especially distresses and deliverances, of a company lately shipwrecked on a desolate rock, on the coast of New-England. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts]Compassions called for. An essay of profitable reflections on miserable spectacles. : To which is added, A faithful relation of some late, but strange occurrences that call for an awful and useful consideration. Especially distresses and deliverances, of a company lately shipwreck'd on a desolate rock, on the coast of New-England. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts]
printed by B. Green, 1711
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THE MARINER Called upon.
THE MARINER Call'd upon.
¶ IN our Search and View of Spectacles for Commiseration, tis very Sensible to every One that we find (if the Last, yet) none of the Least, in the SEA-FARING TRIBE: I had no sooner Proposed these, but, Behold, what an One I have cast into my Hands. I will Expose it; and I cannot more Expressively do it, than in the Words of the Gentleman who was the Commander of the Ship in the Story, from whose Hands, and in whose Terms, I have thus received it.
A RELATION of a Remarkable Deliverance, after a Shipwreck of Uncommon Distress, received by Captain John Dean and Company. [Communicated from himself.] JOHN DEAN bound from Ireland, in the Ship Nottingham Galley, about 120 Tuns, with 14 Men, laden chiefly with Provisions, for New-England; after we had been out above 9 Weeks we made Land to the Eastward of Piscataqua, about the beginning of Decemb 1710 & haling something Southerly for the Massachusetts Bay, betwixt 8 & 9 at Night, on the 11th. under a hard Gale of Wind at N. E accompanied with Rain, Hail & Snow, and a very dark Air, we run upon the East end of a Rock called Bo•n Island; about 4 Leagues to the Eastward of Piscataqua: after two vehement Thumps upon the Rock, a third Sea hove the Ship along the side of it; the Sea running very high, and violently beating upon us, laboured the Ship so excessively, that we looked every Moment when she would fall to pieces; and the Weather so dark, that tho' we were not above 20 or 30 yards off, yet we could see nothing of the Rock: so that there appeared to us but a very small possibility of escaping with our lives; and we were