Le insidie della profonda : essendo un conto di alcuni dei notevoli naufragi e disastri in mare durante gli ultimi cento anni . Sounds. Ofthree cento e cinquanta mila libbre vale la pena ofgold, tre centinaia di migliaia di sterline che vale la pena, in roundnumbers, era a quel tempo recuperato. Il greatbulk del resto è stato sicuramente e costantemente comingup. Perdita di alcuni sovrani necessariamente ha avuto luogo ;infatti, in un primo momento sovrani era andato alla deriva in con thesand, e stato sparso qua e là sopra il mare beachlike-gusci. Così enorme è stata la forza del mare, che ha battuto un grande lingotto d'oro in profondità in astrong

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Perils of the deep : being an account of some of the remarkable shipwrecks and disasters at sea during the last hundred years . ounds. Ofthree hundred and fifty thousand pounds worth ofgold, three hundred thousand pounds worth, in roundnumbers, was at that time recovered. The greatbulk of the remainder was surely and steadily comingup. Some loss of sovereigns necessarily took place ;indeed, at first sovereigns had drifted in with thesand, and been scattered far and wide over the beachlike sea-shells. So tremendous was the force of thesea, that it beat one great ingot of gold deep into astrong and heavy piece of the ships solid ironwork, in which, also, several loose sovereigns that the ingot AMONG THE BREAKERS. 159 had swept in before it had been found, as firmlyembedded as though the iron had been liquid whenthey were forced into it. It was remarked of thebodies that came ashore, too, that they had beenstunned to death, and not suffocated. Observation, both of the internal change that had been wroughtin them, and of the expression of the countenance, showed that death had come to them in a mercifuland easy form.. Llanall^o Church, Ansrlesea. He next describes the church and graveyard. Theformer was at the time disused, having been con-verted into a dead-house, where the bodies broughtthither from the shore lay, for a time, awaiting identi-fication. If not claimed, the dead were interred intheir clothes in large graves capable of holding four i6d PERILS OF THE DEEP. coffins. One such grave Dickens saw ready open, and also a couple of the hastily-formed yet neat andsuitable coffins. Mr. Hughes, the clergyman, dis-played wonderful kindness and ability. He kept aregister of the dead, with a note of such marks, eitheron the person or dress, as might lead to identification.Thus several bodies were exhumed by sorrowingrelatives, even after it had been found necessary tobury them in the first instance. When Dickens, visited the scene, one hundred and forty-five bodieshad alread

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1880
• booksubjectshipwrecks
• bookyear1