Her memory was very quick, and her understanding clear. She gave choice advice to her children with the utmoft caution and tenderness. She faid that she had not the leaft concern about future events, for now fhe believed that the Lord did all things well. It rejoiced her that Chrift was the great God and the King of peace, and that the government was upon his fhoulders. The evening before he died, fhe called one of her children, and, though her fpeech a little faultered, the expreffed herself thus: "I have now, faith fhe, new comfort, which furpaffeth all my former experience, from those words, Heb. vii. 25, 86 Wherefore he is able to fave them to the Uttermost that come unto God by him." O, faid she; that word Uttermoft, is gone into heaven before me! I now res member the days of my efpoufals, when I followed him in the wilderness, and when I was banifhed from my father's houfe, then my God faved me to the Uttermoft; he faved me to the Uttermoft, in all his providences, when in a married ftate; he faved me to the Uitermoft in all my children; he faved me to the Urtermoft in the ftate of my widowhood; he hath faved me to the Uitermoft in all my afflictions, and now he faves me to the Uitermoft in my ficknefs! Yea, this High-prieft, faves my faith, against all the affaults of fatan, on my death bed. As man he fuffered, as God he faves to the Uitermoft." After this the turned herfelf to her neighbours, who were weeping, and faid, "Here is a word for you, Chrift faves to the Utter moft:" And then add effing herself to her child, fhe faid, "O my dear child! I want to take you with me to heaven, but Christ will fave you to the Uttermoft. You have been the gift of God to me, but, wherein you have been useful, take heed of pride, for you have a corrupt nature." After giving charge concerning her funeral, the added, "God will be with you my child," and fell afleep in the arms of her daughter. Thus the Lord favoured her with an eafy paffage to the manfions of glory. She departed this life, Jan. 12, 1734, in the 80th year of her age, and was interred at Saffron-Walden, in Effex. Extract of Captain BLIGH's Voyage. AFTER eight o'clock, Mr. Samuel and Mr. Peckover went out to watch for turtle, and three men went to the east key to endea vour to catch birds. The others complaining of being fick, took their reft. About midnight the bird party returned, with only twelve noddies, a bird about the fize of a pigeon: but if it had not been for the folly and obftinacy of one of the party, who separated from the other two, and disturbed the birds, they might have caught a great number. I now went in search of the turtling party, who had taken great pains, but without fuccefs. This, however, did not surprise me, as it was not to 3 N 2 be be expected that turtle would come near us after the noise which was made at the beginning of the evening in extinguishing the fire. I therefore desired them to come back, but they requested to stay a little longer, as they still hoped to find some before day-light: they, however, returned by three o'clock, without any reward for their labour. The birds we half dreffed, which, with a few clams, made the whole of the fupply procured here. I tied up a few gilt buttons and fome pieces of iron to a tree, for any of the natives that might come after us; and, happily finding my invalids much better for their night's reft, I got every one into the boat, and departed by dawn of day. At noon I divided fix birds, and iffsued one 25th of a pound of bread, with half a pint of water, to each person for dinner, and I gave half a glass of wine to Mr. Nelson, who was now so far recovered as to require no - other indulgence. We arrived about fun-set, at an island and took shelter for the night under a fandy point, which was the only part we could land at : I was therefore under the neceffity to put up with rather a wild fituation, and flept in the boat. Nevertheless I fent a party away to see what could be got, but they returned without any fuccefs. They saw a great number of turtle bones and shells, where the natives had been feasting, and their laft vifit feemed to be of late date. The inland was covered with wood, but in other respects a lump of rocks. I now affured every one that we should be clear of New Holland in the afternoon. As an addition to our dinner of bread and water, I served to each person six oysters. June 4. A fresh gale at S E, and fair weather. At two o'clock, as we were fteering to the S W, towards the westernmost part of the land in fight, we fell in with fome large fand-banks that run off from the coaft. At four o'clock, a small island was seen bearing W, at which I arrived before dark, and found that it was only a rock, where boobies refort, for which reafon I called it Booby island. A small key alfo lies close to the W part of the coaft, which I have called Shoal Cape. Here terminated the rocks and fhoals of the N part of New Holland. At eight o'clock in the evening, we once more launched into the open ocean. Miferable as our fituation was in every respect, I was fecretly furprised to fee that it did not appear to affect any one fo ftrongly as myself; on the contrary, it seemed as if they had embarked on a voyage to Timor, in a veffel fufficiently calculated for safety and convenience. So much confidence gave me great pleasure, and I may affert that to this cause their prefervation is chiefly to be attributed; for if any one of them had despaired, he would most probably have died before we reached New Holland. I now gave every one hopes that eight or ten days might bring us to a land of fafety; and, after praying to God for a continuance of his moft gracious protection, I ferved an allowance of water for fupper, and kept my courfe to the NSW, to counteract the southerly winds, in cafe they should blow ftrong. We had been juft fix days on the coaft of New Holland, in the course of which we found oyfters, a few clams, fome birds, and water. But perhaps a benefit nearly equal to this we received from not having fatigue in the boat, and enjoying good rest at night. These advantages certainly preferved our lives; for, fmall as the fupply was, I am very fenfible how much it relieved our diftreffes. About this time nature would would have funk under the extremes of hunger and fatigue. Some would have ceased to struggle for a life that only promised wretchedness and mifery; while others, though poffeffed of more bodily ftrength, must foon have followed their unfortunate companions. Even in our prefent fituation, we were moft wretched fpectacles; yet our fortitude and fpirit remained; every one being encouraged by the hopes of a speedy termination to his mifery. For my own part, wonderful as it may appear, I felt neither extreme hunger nor thirst. My allowance contented me, knowing I could have no more. I ferved one 25th of a pound of bread, and an allowance of water, for breakfast, and the fame for dinner, with an addition of fix oysters to each person. June 5. Fair weather with fome fhowers, and a ftrong trade wind at ESE. This day we saw a number of water-fnakes," that were ringed yellow and black, and towards noon we paffed a great deal of rockweed. Though the weather was fair, we were conftantly shipping water and two men always employed to bale the boat. Served one 25th of a pound of bread, and a quarter of a pint of water for breakfast; the fame for dinner, with an addition of fix oysters; for fupper water only. June 6. Fair weather, with fome fhowers, and a fresh gale at S E, and ES E. Conftantly fhipping water and baling. In the evening a few boobies came about us, one of which I caught with my hand. The blood was divided among three of the men who were weakeft, but the bird I ordered to be kept for our dinner the next day. Served a quarter of a pint of water for fupper, and to fome, who were most in need, half a pint. In the course of the night we fuffered much cold and fhiverings. At day-light, I found that fome of the clams, which had been hung up to dry for fea-store, were ftolen; but every one moft folemnly denied having any knowledge of it. This forenoon we saw a gannet, a fand-lark, and fome water-fnakes, which in general were from two to three feet long. Served the ufual allowance of bread and water for breakfast, and the fame for dinner, with the bird, which I diftributed in the usual way. Sunday, June 7. Fresh gales and fair weather till eight in the evening. The remaining part of the 24 hours fqually, with much wind at SSE and ESE, and a high sea, so that we were conftantly wet and baling. In the afternoon, I took an opportunity of examining again into our store of bread, and found remaining 19 days allowance, at my former rate of serving one 25th of a pound three times a day: there fore, as I faw every profpect of a quick paffage, I again ventured to grant an allowance for fupper, agreeable to my promise at the time it was difcontinued. We paffed the night miferably wet and cold, and in the morning I heard heavy complaints of our deplorable fituation. The fea was high and breaking over us. I could only afford the allowance of bread and water for breakfast; but for dinner I gave an ounce of dried clams to each person, which was all that remained. June 8. This day the fea ran very high, and we were continually wet, fuffering much cold in the night. I now remarked that Mr. Ledward, the furgeon, and Lawrence Lebogue, an old hardy seaman, were giving way very faft. I could only affift them by a tea-fpoonful or two of wine, which I had carefully faved, expecting fuch a melancholy neceffity. Among most of the others I obferved more than a common inclination to fleep, which feemed to indicate that nature was almost exhaufted. exhaufted, Served the usual allowance of bread and water at fupper, breakfast, and dinner. June 9. Wind S E. The weather being moderate, I steered W by S. At four in the afternoon we caught a small dolphin, the first relief of the kind we obtained. I iffued about two ounces to each perfon, including the offals, and faved the remainder for dinner the next day. Towards evening the wind freshened, and it blew ftrong all night, fo that we fhipped much water, and fuffered greatly from the wet and cold. At day-light, as ufual, I heard much complaining, which my own feelings convinced me was too well founded. I gave the surgeon and Lebogue a little wine, but I could give no farther relief, than affurances that a very few days longer, at our present fine rate of failing, would bring us to Timor. Gannets, boobies, men of war and tropic birds, were conftantly about us. Served the usual allowance of bread and water, and at noon dined on the remains of the dolphin, which amounted to about an ounce per man. June 10. Wind E S E. Fresh gales and fair weather, but a continuance of much fea, which, by breaking almost continually over the boat, made us miferably wet, and we had much cold to endure in the night. This afternoon I suffered great sickness from the oily nature of part of the ftomach of the fish, which had fallen to my fhare at dinner. At fun-fet I ferved an allowance of bread and water for fupper. In the morning, after a very bad night, I could fee an alteration for the worse in more than half my people. The ufual allowance was served for break faft and dinner. June 11. Birds and rock-weed fhowed that we were not far from land; but I expected such figns must be here, as there are many iflands between the eaft part of Timor and New Guinea. I however hoped to fall in with Timor every hour, for I had great apprehenfions that some of my people could not hold out. An extreme weakness, fwelled legs, hollow and ghaftly countenances, great propenfity to fleep, with an ap parent debility of underftanding, feemed to me melancholy prefages of their approaching diffolution. The furgeon and Lebogue, in particular, were moft miferable objects. I occafionly gave them a few tea-fpoonfuls of wine, out of the little I had faved for this dreadful stage, which no doubt greatly helped to fupport them. For my own part, a great fhare of fpirits, with the hopes of being able to accomplish the voyage, feemed to be my principal fupport; but the boatswain very innocently told me, that he really thought I looked worse than any one in the boat. The fimplicity with which he uttered fuch an opinion diverted me, and I had good humour enough to return him a better compliment. noon I had little doubt of having paffed the meridian of the eastern part of Timor: This diffused univerfal joy and fatisfaction. J At June 12. Fresh breezes and fine weather, but very hazy. All the afternoon we had feveral gannets, and many other birds, about us, that indicated we were near land, and at fun-fet we kept a very anxious lookout. In the evening we caught a booby, which I reserved for our dinner the next day. At three in the morning, with an excess of joy, we discovered Timor bearing from WSW to W NW, and I hauled on a wind to the NNE till day-light, when the land bore from SW by S about two leagues to NE by N feven leagues. It is not poffible for me to defcribe the pleasure which the bleffing of the fight of land diffufed 2 fufed among us. It appeared fcarce credible, that in an open boat, and fo poorly provided, we should have been able to reach the coaft of Timor in forty-one days after leaving Tofoa, having in that time run, by our log, a diftance of 3618 miles, and that, notwithstanding our extreme distress, no one should have perished in the voyage. I have already mentioned, that I knew not where the Dutch fettlement was fituated; but I had a faint idea that it was at the SW part of the island. I therefore, after day-light, bore away along shore to the SS W, and the more readily as the wind would not suffer us to go towards the NE without great lofs of time. The day gave us a moft agreeable profpect of the land, which was interfperfed with woods and lawns; the interior part mountainous, but the thore low. Towards noon the coaft became higher, with some remarkable head-lands. We were greatly delighted with the general look of the country, which exhibited many cultivated spots and beautiful fituations; but we could only fee a few small huts, whence I concluded no European refided in this part of the island. Much fea ran on the fhore, fo that landing with a boat was impracticable. With the ufual allowance of bread and water for dinner, I divided the bird we had caught the night before, and to the furgeon and Lebogue I gave a little wine. June 13. Fresh gales at E, and ESE, with very hazy weather. During the afternoon, we continued our courfe along a low woody fhore, with innumerable palm-trees, called the Fan Palm from the leaf fpreading like a fan; but we had now loft all figns of cultivation, and the country had not fo fine an appearance as it had to the eastward. This, however, was only a fmall tract, for by fun-fet it improved again, and I saw several great smokes where the inhabitants were clearing and cultivating their grounds. We had now ran 25 miles to the W SW fince noon, and were W five miles from a low point, which in the afternoon I imagined had been the fouthernmoft land, and here the coaft formed a deep bend, with low land in the bight that appeared like iflands. The weft fhore was high; but from this part of the coaft to the high cape which we were abreast of yesterday noon, the shore is low, and I believe fhoal. I particularly remark this fituation, because here the very high ridge of mountains, that run from the caft end of the island, terminate, and the appearance of the country fuddenly changes for the worse, as if it was not the fame island in any respect. That we might not run past any settlement in the night, I determined to preserve my station till the morning, and therefore hove to under a clofe-reefed fore-fail, with which the boat lay very quiet. We were here in fhoal water, our distance from the fhore being half a league, the westernmoft land in fight bearing WSW W. Served bread and water for fupper, and the boat lying too very well, all but the officer of the watch endeavoured to get a little fleep. At two in the morning, we wore, and stood in fhore till day-light. On examining the coast, and not seeing any fign of a fettlement, we bore away to the weftward, having a strong gale, against a weather current, which occafioned much fea. The fhore was high and covered with wood, but we did not run far before low land again formed the coaft, the points of which open. ing at weft, I once more fancied we were on the fouth part of the island, but at ten o'clock we found the coaft again inclining towards the south, part |