The Fleet Being Thus More Inclosed Will

The Sacred Lamp Of Day Now Dipt In Western Clouds His Parting Day.

Hence A Ship Is Said To Head The Sea, When Her Course Is Opposed To The Setting Or Direction Of The Surges.

With Living Colours Give My Verse To Glow: The Sad Memorial Of A Tale Of Woe!

Mental Agitations And Eating Cares Are More Injurious To Health, And Destructive Of Life, Than Is Commonly Imagined, And Could Their Effects Be Collected, Would Make No Inconsiderable Figure In The Bills Of Mortality.

Hence A Ship Is Said To Be Tight, When Her Planks Are So Compact And Solid As To Prevent The Entrance Of The Water In Which She Is Immersed: And A Cask Is Called Tight, When The Staves Are So Close That None Of The Liquid Contained Therein Can Issue Through Or Between Them.