Dreadful wreck of the brig St. Lawrence, from Quebec to New-York, 1780, which struck on an island of ice, near the gulf of St. Lawrence
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including the melancholy fate of some of the crew, who were frozen to death; and the perilous situation and extreme hardships of the survivors, on an unknown and dreary shore; particularly of William Prenties, Esq. enseign of the 84th Regiment of Foot, by whose enterprising and active spirit, his own, and the preservation of three of his companions, was effected in a crazy boat.
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English
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London : Printed for Thomas Tegg ..., [1820?]
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A chap-book edition of Samuel Waller Prenties's "Narrative of a shipwreck on the island of Cape Breton, in a voyage from Quebec, 1780" (London, 1782), re-written in the third person--Cf. National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.
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0665551436
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