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about him ; but, alas 1 he could see nothin" but the dreadful
effects of the late tempest—dead corpses, broken planks, and
battered chests floating* Turning from these objects, which,
presented to his eyes the dreadful death he had so lately
escaped, he returned thanks for his deliverance, and resigned
himself to Providence, on whom he folly relied; climbed up
the rock, and being come to the top, saw land at the inside,
hearing both trees and gross* “ Heaven be praised! said he,
u I shall not perish upon these barren rocks.”
Being come to the otheT side of the rock, he found at the
bottom of it a narrow lake, which separated it from the laud:
