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Title: Perils of the deep : being an account of some of the remarkable shipwrecks and disasters at sea during the last hundred years
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hoare, Edward N
Subjects: Shipwrecks
Publisher: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ounds. Of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds worth of gold, three hundred thousand pounds worth, in round numbers, was at that time recovered. The great bulk of the remainder was surely and steadily coming up. Some loss of sovereigns necessarily took place; indeed, at first sovereigns had drifted in with the sand, and been scattered far and wide over the beachlike sea-shells. So tremendous was the force of the sea, that it beat one great ingot of gold deep into a strong and heavy piece of the ships solid ironwork, in which, also, several loose sovereigns that the ingot AMONG THE BREAKERS. 159 had swept in before it had been found, as firmly embedded as though the iron had been liquid when they were forced into it. It was remarked of the bodies that came ashore, too, that they had been stunned to death, and not suffocated. Observation, both of the internal change that had been wrought in them, and of the expression of the countenance, showed that death had come to them in a merciful and easy form.
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Llanall^o Church, Anglesea. He next describes the church and graveyard. The former was at the time disused, having been converted into a dead-house, where the bodies brought thither from the shore lay, for a time, awaiting identification. If not claimed, the dead were interred in their clothes in large graves capable of holding four i6d PERILS OF THE DEEP. coffins. One such grave Dickens saw ready open, and also a couple of the hastily-formed yet neat and suitable coffins. Mr. Hughes, the clergyman, displayed wonderful kindness and ability. He kept a register of the dead, with a note of such marks, either on the person or dress, as might lead to identification. Thus several bodies were exhumed by sorrowing relatives, even after it had been found necessary to bury them in the first instance. When Dickens, visited the scene, one hundred and forty-five bodies had already been interred in that little country graveyard. The total number of persons lost by the wreck of the Royal Charter was four hund

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