Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 24 of 120
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# A Month's Tour This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or adventure story. The text describes the narrator's embarkation on the 22nd aboard the ship *Dartmouth* under Captain Hartwell, bound for Dublin. The passengers—three land officers, a sergeant, a servant, four Jesuits, a lady, and a young boy—initially expect an eight-hour voyage, but the narrator cautions that the uncertain sea elements soon prove otherwise. The passage ends as a prodigious swell develops after the ship advances six leagues. The archaic spelling and typography are consistent with late 18th or early 19th-century printing.
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On the 220d:we embarked on board the Dartmouth, Captain Hartwell, © at two @'clock A.M. When we weighed ant ‘chor, the -wind was fouth-weft, very favor- able’ for Dublin, which. is fituate exactly motth-weft of this port. e> We and the reft.of the paffengers, which confifted of three tand officers, a ferjeant, and: afervant, four Jefuits, a lady, and a young boy, were in high fpirits, expecting to arrive at Dublin in eight hours. But experience {60M taught us that there is no depétiding upon the uncertain elements to which'we had now committed ourfelves. ~ * | ieWheré.was a prodigious fwell in the fea, and when we had advanced fix leagues, | : the comicbooks.com