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being distanced by the Empress, obliged hurried him away on this condition before the putting
up of the habitable part was finished. He took a number of the hands aboard
with him for that purpose: and they were working as much at their ease as on
dry land. The hold given to the wind by the necessary height of the habitable
part above the water was a great difficulty to contend with in a stormy part of
the year, though so confined and winding a chanel, rendered only the more dangerous
by spreading itself occasionally, at this season of inundation, over under-woods and sand-banks. Poor Burkit was sadly out in his two stories for
a species of vessel, which must indeed have one, but for which that one is almost too many.
Jeremiah Bentham Esq:
Queen's Square Place — Westm.r
London
dat.d 4/15 May 1787
Recd 12 July 1787, of
Mr G. Wilson who recd
it the 10th July —
Identifier: | JB/540/350/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
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