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This sketch I have sent & if possible will correct it with the Charts that we previously made --- The information I have received by the Harrington is stated [?] to the Admiralty and Sect of State. [indecipherable] that during the Harrington's stay on the West side of Kings Island the Remains of a wreck was found on different part of that Coast, but the greatest quantity of the Fragments were found in a deep Bay at the South West point of the Island & as all that there is bound with Rocks which lyes a great way off it is probable the Vessell to which the wreck belonged, was running for the south passage thru the Straits & unfortunately struck on these reefs from whence not a soul could escape nor could the Vessell hold long together, that or from where the Vessell was we are at a loss to conjecture, as there was no other mark on any part of the wreck that a single T or the [Heel] of a Topmast --- The Master of the Harrington thinks from every thing he saw that she must have been a vessell of 400 tons and for all appearances could not be cast away more than Four