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BIOGRAPHY, ORIGINAL LETTERS, &c
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Biography, Original Letters, &C
BIOGRAPHY , ORIGINAL LETTERS , &c
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No . "XVL ORIGINAL . LETTERS OF MRS . SHEPPATtb ' S .
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Letter III . 3 T # Mrs . Say * Inglaniy Banger Court , $ ep 1 Ty * 18 . Saturday * Dear Madam * I am , thank . God , safe arrived In dear , . good old England , after having gone
-through great and variety of troubles in a foreign land , and escaped innumerable dangers at sea * . I landed at Wapping the fourth of July , and was at the captainV house a week , till my sister came out of the country to receive me here . I came with the same 1 went over
ythh ; being determined to trust my life with no other , being assured of his skill , sobriety and conduct-, afcd knowing I should be treated well by him , his obligation * being great to the family I left . ; and his personal knowledge of me . and jqy family , and some friends in England , conspired- to my advantage- I-had one
oi the best ships under me that go those hazardous seas . We were just a month , to an hour , in our . passage , having not <> ne day a fair wind : the first two weeks it wa ^ fine , smooth weather , till we came to the north seas , and the rest of the June- * # as very tempestuous had weather : we dM .-JMfct see the sun in , nine days ; but
• thr ^ c days the tempest was so great that iter brokenojHr majn-yarci i « the middle , ^ vWch i&t&echief wppc » rt -of , &he ship ; and Wte&fe < M | I * ' ? $$ » fail beiqg , disabled from ^ Pl ^ ^ iU " duty on dfcclc , the captain 1 $ P ¦ ilv f ^ ^ ° P y ^ WJP ^ e ^ deck , and l ^»|| vr ^ . lefMO tjie n ^ ercy o £ winds WilP ^ . ^ te 9 S pk ^ surc , . ^ d the
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next day we were just upon a lee-shtjrc I thought of instant death all this time , and had the utmost need of aM the religion and philosophy I could caii to my aid , t ^> support and enable me to bear and contain myself m these calamitous circumstances ; ar . d , thank God , I was still and composed within , ard thinking every moment the little wooden world I was
in would be swallowed up . I was glad there were ntf other passengers , besides myself , lest they should' disturb me by their -fears and terrors or Violent be&ar vioAir ; for I had enough to . do tqf-bear with myself , i saw the captai © but onec in this hurricane , and he told me he hoped there was no danger—4 ofrily saidfc
•« L / hopenot , Sir , how da ybu ?; ' for he had enough on his head and hands , and I was cautious of discomposing . htm , or asking , questions * » When the storm was abated , the men felj to work to / get-up an ?* other stick , in the room of that we lost ^; which the captain . happened to have by mere accident , never going with a supply but toward winter before ; but it was
well for us we had it . \ 1 saw » thetsea i » . all its Jiorrors . ; the inlmensa waves , hig hp er than the top of the ship , flying . over us and upqit us , atid the ship as it tossed and reeled , emptied on eneside and theiji ^ filled ort the other , tl ^ e heave ns looking black and the water like snow . Th $
ship was . in danger of uplifting by th 4 force of the waves against it ; but i ^ pleased Go < $ ( Ss $ t . Paul ^ ays ;) vre came safe to land after my p « rJb at land and at « csu . i-0 WC 4 t « £ fcwa ^ the fij < 6 t Eng tiOt
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THE SAY PAPERS ,
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TH 5 MONTHLY RE ^ OSITOEY OF . Theology and General Literature *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/1/
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