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Seventeenth day of August 1791.
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Saturday Evening last he was in Company
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agred to go the next Morning to wash
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his Dept, the next Morning about
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five O' Clock (the fourteenth Instant)
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they Want together into
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, That
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and swam a little about, when this
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and Dept. saw the Deced swimming across
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and was got rather more than half, way
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Man was Drowning, and on looking
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round he saw the Deced in Danger &
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some times going down and Coming up
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at last Deced disappeared and Sunk
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Says that he swam about there some time
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but would not discover him That a
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was brought and the Grapples used
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day without Success, and that the Deced
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