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and uncovered as the prayers are read. Sailors, with all their looseness of habits, are well disposed to be sincerely religious; and when they have fair play given them, they will always, I believe, be found to stand on as good vantage ground, in this respect, as their fellow-countrymen on shore. Be this as it may, there can be no more attentive, or apparently reverent auditory, than assembles on the deck of a ship of war, on the occasion of a shipmate's burial.

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      Holinshed.

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      Alba, the city of Romulus, the founder of Rome, was called so from a white sow found there by Æneas.—Vide Livy, lib. i

      Cum tibi sollicito secreti ad fluminis undam

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Holinshed.

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Alba, the city of Romulus, the founder of Rome, was called so from a white sow found there by Æneas.—Vide Livy, lib. i

Cum tibi sollicito secreti ad fluminis undamLitoreis ingens inventa sub illicibus sus,Triginta capitum foetus enixa jacebit,Alba, solo recubans, albi circum ubera nati:Is locus urbis erit ei.Virgil Æneid, lib. iii. v. 390.When, in the shady shelter of a woodAnd near the margin of a gentle flood,Thou shalt behold a sow upon the ground,With thirty sucking young encompassed round;The dam and offspring white as falling snow:These on thy city shall their name bestow, &c.DRYDEN.

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