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THYBO RØN.
Chap. XL.
over her: two more such nights and she will go to
pieces.
It appears, when first wrecked, the engineer sent
over by the insurance-company was advised to sell
her outright. The insurance however was too heavy
(13,000Q for the company to abandon her without a
trial. They counted on the west wind to bring the
water necessary to again set her afloat. The west wind
came, but with it breakers so violent she soon filled a
secon^ time. So, after an expense of nearly 2000Z., the
enterprise was given over.
There is one thing certain, that no vessel once
stranded on this most perilous of all coasts ever can
be got off. The east wind blows away the water, while
the west brings with it breakers of such fearful
violence nothing can withstand them. Many other vessels
are here in the same plight, without speaking of the
wrecks extending from hence to Skagen. Lower down
lies the “ Auguste,” a French boat, and further still the
Dutch “Harborg;” then comes a Swedish frigate, 74,
and so on; a regiment of masts of phantom-ships lie
embedded in the sand down the whole west coast of
Jutland. In the year 1811 two English ships, the “ St.
George ” and the “ Defiance,” first-class men-of-war, were
wrecked on this coast. The masts until not many years
ago were still above water. The “ Defiance ” may yet
be distinguished at low tide, though not the skeletons
of the Admiral’s wife and three daughters in the
statecabin, as I was informed by a young lady a few days
ago.
At this season last year ten vessels lay close together,
wrecked, side by side, on the sands, and were
sta^d
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