Crusoe written by himself by D Defoe Author:Daniel Defoe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1651. On the first of September, I went on board a ship bound for London. been at sea before, I was most inexpressibly sick in body, and terrified in mmd : I ... more »began now seriously to reflect upon what I had done, and how justly I was overtaken by the judgment of heaven, for wickedly leaving my father's house. AH the good counsel of my parents, my father's tears, and my mother t entreaties, came now fresh into my mind ; and my conscience, which was not yet corne to the pitch of hardiness to which it has since, reproached me with th contempt of advice, and the abandonment of my duty. All this while, the storm encreased, and the sea, which I had never been upon before, went very high, though nothing like what I have seen many times Kingston was Imilt by King Edward I. It is a large maritime boibugh-town in the east riding of Yorkshire, with the most considerable trade, both domestic and foreign, of any sea-port upon this coast ef our island. The two principal branches of its foreign navigation are the Baltic, and Groenland ; in support of which, they have a guild or fraternity, established upon a plan and for purposes, similar to that of the celebrated " Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity, and of Saint Clement in the parish of Deptford-strond." The population of Kingston-npon-Hnll, amounted to 26700 persons of every age and sex, according to the latest parliamentary report (1813). The latitude of King Henry Vllllh's tower in this town, has been observed to be 53 degrees 45niinutesNorlh;and that of the south-end battery about 20 seconds less. The spring-tides flow here from 17 to 18 feet ; the neap-tides only from 11 te 1"¿ feet ; and the time of high water on the full and change days of the (J is at ? o'clock. The variation of the magnetic needle, from the ...« less