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MELANCHOLY CONSEQUENCES
OF TWO
Sea Storms, &c.
⟨An⟩ account of the Shipwreck of a Portugueſe Snow, on her paſſage from Goa to Madras—in the year 1782, related by one of the Sufferers.
IT was now the eightenth of May when we ſailed from Goa. The hemiſphere had been ſome days overcaſt with clouds: ſome light ⟨ſhowers⟩ of rain had fallen; and it certainly did not (illegible text)d d to raiſe my ſpirits, and free me from my ominous apprehenſions, to hear that thoſe circumſtances ⟨indicated⟩ an approaching gale of wind. I obſerved, moreover, that the veſſel was much too deep in the ⟨crater⟩, being greatly overloaded—that ſhe was in ⟨many⟩ reſpects defective, and, as the ſeamen ſay, ill-⟨wind⟩, and, and in ſhort very unfit to encounter a gale ⟨of⟩ wind of any violence. I ſcorned, however, to
