Show I 1 sned by oil A arreca on sable llanil island deserves attention it because beca iss of its irs tearing hearing upon a problem row deply ply inter interesting eFting seafarers the llie over it happened d ir in 1840 1846 and superintendent darby D irby is our authority tho rity A wild gala had suddenly I 1 sprung up tip and lie and lila his men were patrolling the beach when they descried a large schooner running right don down ii before the storm dead on oil to tc the llie lee bhore the sevivas sea was breakie breaking evelyin here as far as the eye could reach and alid it se seemed erneLl impossible for any any vessel to live in ill it tor for a moment yet on the schooner came passing brealer breaker after breaker uninjured tile the extraordinary thing being that although i I 1 the lie huge buge waves raided t heir curled heads almost to the top of her masts and the fill fall of if illy any of them upon her deck would have crushed lier her I 1 like ike an egg shell shelf not one teemed permitted t to 0 touch her on tho the contrary arv as aa it if by a miracle the alie sea decarne smooth ere cre it readied reached her and she left 1 a I shining shilling track belli behind ad after sonie some minutes minute of thrill thrilling in suspense she bhe wai ava hur hurled hi hiigli ph anil dry upon tile beach and every one of her crew rescued uninjured then carne came the explanation of the alio strange phenomenon which had so my mystified 3 superintendent darby two large casks filled with fudi fiali oil ha biad d been lashed in the fore rigging and securely lashed beside them two tv 0 of the strongest sailors in the crew w m ith long woolen wooden ladles in hand band had teen been throwing the alie oil hi high 0 11 up ill in in the air where it was caught by the wind and carried far to leeward in advance of the vessel spreading over the sea with such effect that while it wai raging pitching and breaking all about heir her I 1 not a barrel of water tell fell upon the arnos deck I 1 believe this may avith safey safety be claimed as one of ill lie earliest recorded instances of the practical application of oil to the troubled waters sel hibners magazine |