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On Dreams.
her to go without him . Soon afterwards he engaged with an East-India Captain , with whom he went , and made a safe and profitable voyage ; but on his return , and enquiring after the Greenland ship , he heard she had foundered at sea , and that all her crew had perished . In 1783 , Mr . Henry Laurens , President of the American Congress , related to a company in London the following circumstance , as afaCt , to his own knowled "
ge . In the year 1740 , a Captain Shubrick , who commanded a vessel which had made several voyages to Charlestown in South Carolina , was lying off the bar , almost ready for sailing , when suddenly a . tremendous hurricane arose , which continued the whole night . When the morning came , it appeared that much damage had been done , and that Captain Shubrick's vessel was missing . His friends at
Charlestown were alarmed , and anxious for his safety . It was the opinion of some that he had gone down as soon as the hurricane commenced ; while others thought , that as he was nearly laden , he had pushed away for England . This was the subject of conversation that day . The next ni ght the lady of a merchant in Charlestown , at whose house Captain Shubrick was very intimate , dreamed that the vessel
was lost , but that the Captain was floating on part of the wreck . This she related to her husband , and prevailed upon him to send out a schooner some few leagues , in hopes to assist Captain Shubrick . The gentleman did so ; the schooner sailed , and returned in the evening without gaining any information . She dreamed the same that night , and repeated her request to her husbard that the schooner might be again-sent out : he was averse to it ; buton her importunity ,
, complied . The schooner returned , as on the preceding day . She again dreamed that Shubrick ' s vessel was lost , and that he was floating on a part of the wreck ; and again renewed her request . - The gentleman objected , that it was well known in Charlestown that he had sent theschooner out twice , in consequence of her dreams , which had subjected him to the ridicule of some people , and that were he to
do it again he should be generally laughed at . However , he could not resist his lad y ' s solicitations ; and the schooner sailed once more . Late in the evening , as she was making the harbour , an object was descried at a distance , which , on their approaching , proved to be Captain Shubrick , with one sailor , on a part of the wreck . They took them up , and returned safe to Charlestown . Captain Shubrick was , We believe , living in 1758 , in or near Mile-End . X .
Description Of M1ddleton Dale,
DESCRIPTION OF MIDDLETON DALE ,
DERBYSHIRE ^ ¦ fUTIDDLETONDale , near Chatsworth , is a cleft between rocks , ¦ ^ - " - ascending gradually from a romantic village ,, till it emerges , at about two miles distance , on the vast moor-lauds of the Peak ; it is a dismal entrance to a desart ; the hills above it are bare ; the rocks are of a grey colour ; their surfaces are rugged , and their shapes savage ; frequently terminating in craggy points ; sometimes resembling vast
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On Dreams.
her to go without him . Soon afterwards he engaged with an East-India Captain , with whom he went , and made a safe and profitable voyage ; but on his return , and enquiring after the Greenland ship , he heard she had foundered at sea , and that all her crew had perished . In 1783 , Mr . Henry Laurens , President of the American Congress , related to a company in London the following circumstance , as afaCt , to his own knowled "
ge . In the year 1740 , a Captain Shubrick , who commanded a vessel which had made several voyages to Charlestown in South Carolina , was lying off the bar , almost ready for sailing , when suddenly a . tremendous hurricane arose , which continued the whole night . When the morning came , it appeared that much damage had been done , and that Captain Shubrick's vessel was missing . His friends at
Charlestown were alarmed , and anxious for his safety . It was the opinion of some that he had gone down as soon as the hurricane commenced ; while others thought , that as he was nearly laden , he had pushed away for England . This was the subject of conversation that day . The next ni ght the lady of a merchant in Charlestown , at whose house Captain Shubrick was very intimate , dreamed that the vessel
was lost , but that the Captain was floating on part of the wreck . This she related to her husband , and prevailed upon him to send out a schooner some few leagues , in hopes to assist Captain Shubrick . The gentleman did so ; the schooner sailed , and returned in the evening without gaining any information . She dreamed the same that night , and repeated her request to her husbard that the schooner might be again-sent out : he was averse to it ; buton her importunity ,
, complied . The schooner returned , as on the preceding day . She again dreamed that Shubrick ' s vessel was lost , and that he was floating on a part of the wreck ; and again renewed her request . - The gentleman objected , that it was well known in Charlestown that he had sent theschooner out twice , in consequence of her dreams , which had subjected him to the ridicule of some people , and that were he to
do it again he should be generally laughed at . However , he could not resist his lad y ' s solicitations ; and the schooner sailed once more . Late in the evening , as she was making the harbour , an object was descried at a distance , which , on their approaching , proved to be Captain Shubrick , with one sailor , on a part of the wreck . They took them up , and returned safe to Charlestown . Captain Shubrick was , We believe , living in 1758 , in or near Mile-End . X .
Description Of M1ddleton Dale,
DESCRIPTION OF MIDDLETON DALE ,
DERBYSHIRE ^ ¦ fUTIDDLETONDale , near Chatsworth , is a cleft between rocks , ¦ ^ - " - ascending gradually from a romantic village ,, till it emerges , at about two miles distance , on the vast moor-lauds of the Peak ; it is a dismal entrance to a desart ; the hills above it are bare ; the rocks are of a grey colour ; their surfaces are rugged , and their shapes savage ; frequently terminating in craggy points ; sometimes resembling vast