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l8 American Revclidion.

were lined with broad flieets of lead, to pre- serve the weed from the waters.

11. And the cheds were put upon car- riages that were part of wood, 2A\d. part of iron, and horses were put to the carriages, (now there were do such carriages m the days of Solomoiiv)

22. And they went by i\\Q way cf the ftreet of the city, until thou corned to the tower of Lud, which looketh towards the liver^ v/here was a fair haven for diips.

23. Now when the fliips had taken in their lading, the mariners spread their sails to the Tvind, and unloosed their rudder-bands, and launched out into the great deep; and after they had set a compass, they fleered a fhrait course to the land of Columbia, that lieth to the wcftward of Britain, twenty-four thou- •sand furlongs.