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The only prospect which offere , was to cre(illegible text) long the side of the cavern, to its outward extr(illegible text)ty, and on a ledge scarcely as broad as a man's ha(illegible text) to turn the corner, and endeavour to clamber the almost perpendicular precipice, whose sum was near two hundred feet from the base.
And in this desperate effort did some success whilst others, trembling with terror, and (illegible text) strength exhausted by mental and bodily fatigue lost their precarious footing, and perished in the tempt.
The first men who gained the summit of the (illegible text) were the Cook, and James Thompson, a Qua(illegible text)master, by their own exertions they made their (illegible text) to the land, and the moment they reached it, (illegible text)tened to the nearest house, and made known the (illegible text)tuation to their fellow sufferers
The house at which they first arrived was East(illegible text) too the present habitation of Mr. Garland, ste(illegible text) or agent to the proprietors of the Purbeck Qua(illegible text) who immediately got together the workmen in his direction, and with the most zealous and anim(illegible text) humanity; exerted every effort for the preservation of the surviving crew of this unfortunate ship; were procured with all possible dispatch, and (illegible text) precation taken that assistance should be spe(illegible text) and effectually given.
As the day advanced, more assistance was o(illegible text)ed, and as the life preserving efforts of the fur(illegible text) would admit it, they crawled to the extremities (illegible text) covered, and presented themselves to their pr(illegible text) above, she stood prepared with the means the situation would permit them to exercise, to them to the summit.
Circumstantial Narrative of the logs of the Halfewe(illegible text)
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