270 PHILIP QUARLL.

about him ; but, alas! he could see nothing but the dreadful
effects of the late tempest—dead corpses, broken planks, and
battered chests floating. Turning from these objects, which
presented to his eyes the dreadful death he had so lately

 

escaped, he returned thanks for his deliverance, and resigned
himself to Providence, on whom he fully relied ; climbed up
the rock, and being come to the top, saw land at the inside,
bearing both trees and grass. “Heaven be praised !” said he,
«J shall not perish upon these barren rocks.”

Being come to the other side of the rock, he found at the
bottom of it a narrow lake, which separated it from the land :