The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . A DETAILED JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS ON BOARD OF THE STEAM-PACKET. WHICH SPRUNG A-LEAK OFF CAPE HATTERAS With a melancholy Account of her s^ibsequent Losson Ocracoke Island, off the Coast of North Caro-lina, Octoher, 1837. E introduce this narrative with the follow-ing eloquent extract from the funeraldiscourse of the Rev. Mr. Smyth, ad-dressed to the inhabitants of Charleston,S. C. ^ We have been called upon, mybrethren, to hear, during the past week,a tale of no ordinary sadness,

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The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . A DETAILED JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS ON BOARD OF THE STEAM-PACKET. WHICH SPRUNG A-LEAK OFF CAPE HATTERAS With a melancholy Account of her s^ibsequent Losson Ocracoke Island, off the Coast of North Caro-lina, Octoher, 1837. E introduce this narrative with the follow-ing eloquent extract from the funeraldiscourse of the Rev. Mr. Smyth, ad-dressed to the inhabitants of Charleston,S. C. ^ We have been called upon, mybrethren, to hear, during the past week,a tale of no ordinary sadness, and to witness calamity of nocommon or usual endurance. No enemy has been amongus, to lay waste and destroy. No plague or pestilence havestalked through our city, brandishing around them the swordof death. Famine has not opened her wide and hungryjaws wdth earthquake rapacity. No hurricane has burst

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