The voyage and shipwreck of St. Paul, with dissertations on the life and writings of St. Luke, and the ships and navigation of the ancients (1880)
Smith, James, 1782-1867, Smith, Walter Edward, ed · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 194
teunexpectedly fell in with this very point, the quarter-master on the look-out, who first observed it, states inhis evidence at the court-martial, that at the distanceof a quarter of a mile the land could not be seen, butthat he saw the surf on the shore. Here then weestablish the explanation of a… … THE SHIPWRECK. 131 witness. Till the ship arrived at the entrance of thebay they could not be aware of the vicinity of land ;when they did come to it they could not avoidbecoming aware of it. When they did so, theysounded, and found twenty fathoms.^ But a shipcoming from the eastward must,…
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