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LETTER V

The Rev Dr Pringle to Mr Micklewham, Schoolmaster and

Session-Clerk, Garnock

LONDON, 49 NORFOLK STREET, STRAND

DEAR SIR--On the first Sunday forthco hereof, you

will not fail to recollect in the re prayer, that we return

thanks for our safe arrival in London, after a dangerous voyage Well,

indeed, is it ordained that we should pray for those who go down to the

sea in ships, and do business on the great deep; for what h is unspeakable, and the hand of Providence was visibly

manifested

On the day of our embarkation at Leith, a fair wind took us onward at a

blithe rate for soht the bridle of

the tempest was slackened, and the curb of the billows loosened, and the

ship reeled to and fro like a drunken hter lay at the point of death; Andrew Pringle,

rievous affliction; and the very

soul within me was as if it would have been cast out of the body

On the following day the storm abated, and the wind blew favourable; but

towards the heel of the evening it again came veheht, however, it pleased HIM, whose

breath is the te with the whip of His

displeasure on our poor bark, as she hirpled on in her toilsoh His strength, to lift my

head froht of

Noah looking out of thein the ark, upon the face of the desolate

flood, and of Peter walking on the sea; and I said to myself, it matters