The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . THE MELANCHOLY ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF THE STEAM-PACKET PULASKI, OFF CAPE LOOKOUT,ON THE COAST OF NORTH CAROLINA, OCCASIONED BY THE EXPLOSION OF THE STEAM BOILER; With the Narratives of the Sufferings and AffectingScenes which those passed through, who surviyedthe Catastrophe, whilst floating on Fragments ofthe Wreck, and in reaching the Shore in the Boats,June, N the melancholy catalogue of misfortuneson the ocean, few cases have producedscenes so heart-rending and painfully-a
The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . THE MELANCHOLY ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF THE STEAM-PACKET PULASKI, OFF CAPE LOOKOUT,ON THE COAST OF NORTH CAROLINA, OCCASIONED BY THE EXPLOSION OF THE STEAM BOILER; With the Narratives of the Sufferings and AffectingScenes which those passed through, who surviyedthe Catastrophe, whilst floating on Fragments ofthe Wreck, and in reaching the Shore in the Boats,June, N the melancholy catalogue of misfortuneson the ocean, few cases have producedscenes so heart-rending and painfully-affecting, as were brought about by theexplosion on board of the Pulaski. Bythis fatal accident perished the young,fair, and beautiful, the learned and theignorant, the high and the low, — all sunk together. Notomb shall plead to their remembrance. No human powercould redeem their forms. The white foam of the waveswas their winding-sheet. The winds of the ocean will betheir eternal dirge. « The death angel flapped his broad wing oer the wave. One loud report awakened the affrighted company, andupon hurrying up from their cabins, they found, in the place14* 162 THE DESTRUCTIOx\ OF THE PULASKI. of the firm deck and whitened planks, which they had lasttrod, before retiring to their slumbers, a dark and frightfulabyss, resembling a black and mighty caldron, in the bot-tom of which rested the ponderous and broken steam en-gine. But through the cracked sides and broken rim
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