...very heavy waves at a great distance from it. " And fearing," when they saw this, seeing some land, " lest they should have fallen upon rocks, they cast...anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day." It does not imply, as any classical scholar acquainted with ancient navigation knows, that they anchored...

...about midnight the sailors deemed that some country drew near to them. And they 28 sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms. Then fearing lest we should fall upon rocky 29 places, they threw four anchors out...

...28 Kai f)o\iaavTi<;, tvpov opyvias fiicoai ' Ppa\v Se Siaarr)aavTef, Kai iraXiv poXiaavTif, evpov 28 And sounded and found it twenty fathoms, and when they had gone a little farther they sounded again and found it fifteen fathoms. * The ancient fathom (opyvia~) so nearly agrees...

...by its blowing in the opposite direction; but by the sight or sound of breakers the rocky coast. 28. And sounded, and found (it) twenty fathoms; and when...they sounded again, and found (it) fifteen fathoms. Having sounded (heaved the lead, to ascertain the depth), they found (it) twenty fathoms. The Greek...

...fourteenth night trot come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shiftmen deemed that they drew near to some country; and sounded, and found...again, and found it fifteen fathoms. Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast Jour anchors out of fa stern, and wished for the day. And...

...the ship from being wrecked in a storm. Luke tells us, in his description of Paul's shipwreck, that " fearing lest they should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and waited for day." It is an interesting spectacle to see a noble vessel, when the hurricane is hurling...

...; and when they had drifted a little farther they sounded again, and found it was 15 fathoms ; and then fearing lest they should have fallen upon rocks,...anchors out of the stern,* and wished for the day. Acts xxvii. 27—29. Soldiers prevent the sailors from leaving the ship.— 620 The seamen now secretly...

...had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found ü fifteen fathoms. 29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. up to "the third day," YS. 19,) we being borne through (driven about, drifting) in Adria, (in the Adriatic...

...the water at the place there is another most remarkable coincidence. We are told that the sailors " sounded and found it twenty fathoms, and when they had gone a little farther, they sounded, and found \ififteen fathoms." ^ " But what," observes a modern writer, " are...

...days, one hour, and twenty minutes. 18. "They sounded and found it twenty fathoms; and when tuay 12* had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms." From the accurate chart of St Paul's Bay, in the Admiralty survey, it appears that a ship finds the...