Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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        itory news to one when the Captain
        told me. {A} tremendous sea
        running all day, the ship
        laboring very much, and straining
5      a good deal, however making
        no water. I am certain that
        a tighter or stronger ship
        never left Glasgow. The Ann
        Harley or Adam Carr (two
10    New York traders) would not
        have lived an hour in the
        gale we experienced last
        week.89

        Thursday 12th {A} superstition of
15    yesterday's weather but no
        lightning, tremendously heavy
        rain. {W}e had some violent
        squalls today, during one of
        wh[ic]h the wind again chopped
20    round to the Nor'west. God grant
        that we will not founder
        during one of the squalls.
        Oh Eliza, but providence has
   
   
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