Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 26 of 120
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# A Month's Tour — Running Prose Page This is a page of running prose text from what appears to be a travel narrative or voyage account. The passage describes a ship's difficult passage during a storm, with persistent hailstorms and rain driven by north-westerly winds. The crew adjusts sails at nine P.M. and again at four A.M., then attempts to reach Dublin Bay by sailing windward. They successfully anchor near Dunleary (modern Dun Laoghaire), two leagues from Dublin, at eight o'clock. The text notes that despite the "toilsome and dangerous passage," the mariners—all Welsh except for the Captain—remained composed, though the final sentence appears to continue onto the next page.
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20606CUC AAC MONT H’s TOUR. attended by a perpetual fucceffion of hail- ftorms and rain, the wind ftill continuing north-weit. At nine P. M. we ftcod with our bow fouth-fouth-weft, the wind ftill blowing with increafing violence. We kept this courfe for feveral hours. At four A, M. we were under the neceffity of heaving the fhip to, in order to take in an additional reef in our. main and forefail. When we had done this, we endeavoured, by plying to windward, to make the Dub- lin bay, and at half paft five A. M. open’d it, and came to anchor at eight off Dun- leary, two leagues from Dublin. Notwithftanding this toilfome and dan- eerous pafiage, the mariners, who were all Welfhmen, except the Captain, were ne- ik : ver comicbooks.com