in the street, and warns me to conclude.

- Yours, ANDREW PRINGLE.


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 forthcoming after the receiving
hereof, you will not fail to recollect in the remembering 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 me and mine have come through 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 some time; but in the course of that night the
bridle of the tempest was slackened, and the curb of the billows
loosened, and the ship reeled to and fro like a drunken man, and no
one could stand therein. My wife and daughter lay at the point of
death; Andrew Pringle, my son, also was prostrated with the grievous
affliction; and the very soul within me was as if it would have been
cast out of the body.