. The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine . d, having broken downthe roof and driven out the gable-end. The last portionmust have been thrown to a very great height, as it had en-tered the roof at an angle of at least sixty degrees. A fifthportion, weighing two hundred and thirty-six pounds, wentobliquely up the river eight hundred feet, and passing overthe houses, landed on the sidewalk, the bricks of whichhad been broken and driven deeply into the ground by portion had encountered some individual in its course,as it c


. The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine . d, having broken downthe roof and driven out the gable-end. The last portionmust have been thrown to a very great height, as it had en-tered the roof at an angle of at least sixty degrees. A fifthportion, weighing two hundred and thirty-six pounds, wentobliquely up the river eight hundred feet, and passing overthe houses, landed on the sidewalk, the bricks of whichhad been broken and driven deeply into the ground by portion had encountered some individual in its course,as it came stained with blood. Such was the situation ofthe houses that it must have fallen at an angle as high asforty-five degrees. It has been stated, that bodies of per-sons were projected quite across the river into can find no evidence of the truth of this: on the con-trary, Mr. Kerr informs me, that he made inquiries of thepeople on the opposite shore, and could not learn that anything was seen to fall farther than half way across theriver, which is at that place about sixteen hundred m THE UNKNOWN FATE OF M. DE BLOSSEVILLE, OF THE FRENCH BRIG-OF-WAR LILLOISE, WHO SAILED ON A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE ARCTIC OCEAN,AND NEVER RETURNED; With the Detailed Journals of the Three Voyages,undertaken by the French Government, in Searchof that celebrated but unfortunate Navigator andhis Comrades; 1833, TRANSLATED EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK. THE ORIGINAL NARRATIVES ARE PRESERVED IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE FRENCH NAVr.


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