The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1817-10-29

super eIsttulture, We are tt Q loss totncv vhss
ps., of the work ought to be considered the
beat but ibe huge stone pillars present the
most nots: appear anee, when closely viewed
the weight Of the stones, and the manDes in
which they are secured together cannot but
as,obish the beholder, snd he can haI dly per-
susde himself the, II 10 the work Of men.
There always should be such an inspection, and
it should te repeated periodically.
Extract Of q letter, dolfS Porf Glasgow, Aug.
Is, frem Cafs. .dndsysen, Of the Phoebe, Of
Mncardine.
- have peculisr satisfaction in Informing
you, that on The 3o'h Of April, WAS the
means, under Providence, Of rescuine from
lingering death Of cold and hunger, fourteen
oil my fellow creatures, part OF the crow oil
the sch. Curle ", from, Ws,erfo,d. bound TO
ST. Johns, IN F)-On the 2sth Of the same
month the vessel had got epciosed among
The ice, and unfortunately having ,truck
mass Of It, stove in her bow in such man.
ner, ,hat half so hour afterwards she went
down. The passengers and crew succeeded
in getting on The ice and soon after the mas
ter, mate, three of the crew, with i've pas
sengers, got into the boat, with The intention
Of making Tor ST. Johns, the rsmsinder be-
,pg lei, on the ice to await their fate. Fort
uoa,eiy a, =, A. NJ. on the day mentioned,
lat. %7, 20, N. lon. 10, 80, w. ! observed
them in their perious situation, and inlme.
diatcly made all sail towards them. At9,
A. NJ. brought the ship as near them as
circumstances would permit, and with one
Of our boats we happily succeeded in getting
them on board, - in number) but learned
with regret tha, they only formed part of The
crew, and passengers, Eve more having been
sepef ated from them, on different piece Of
ice, two days af,er.--Those I rescued, now
ever, informed me that they had seen their
companions two deys before |: and though
they could give me no accurate idea Of the
direction, from want OF a compass, j was led
10 understand that they might probably be
or miles of. accordingly kept the ship
all day close in with the ice, but saw nothing
OF them. Al sight l stood 70 the cling and
towards morsing tackled and bore down in
the direction was mos, likely to fall 10 with
tho unfortunate men. A: S, A. Nj. we had
the pleasure of observing something among
the ice like signal but thick haze coming
on. We again los, sigh, Of il. At half past 7,
il cleared little, and we now near enough
W tlsNSib viz opJSe'o W. W. o'N-
ions search. lost no time in running the
ship as near them as we could with safety,
and am happy 10 say, succeeded in getting
the ~ all safely on board These snfottubatc
men had often been tanialized With the sight
Of different vessels, fore we fell in with
them and while mention this, cannot
insist too strongly on the duly Of all masters
of vessels examining vefy minurely the ice,
when they happen 10 get amSosst u, as there
is always possibility Of some Of their fellow
creatures being in the ssmc dreadful situa-
tioo those had thc good fortune to fescue.
Their shipms,es who wen, cH in the boat,
reached ~. Johns, after a tedious passage Of
90 day., ,,durins which they encountered much
suffering sod p,ivasion. Their only subsis-
tance was seals, aud 40 prccarious was this
mode Of keeping themselves alive, tha, for
ten DIS they had only one"