A further account of the journey from Harwich to Helvoetsluys— Description of a number of marine¹ objects never mentioned by any traveller before—Rocks seen in this passage equal to the Alps in magnitude; lobsters², crabs⁴, &c., of an extraordinary magnitude—A woman's life saved—The cause of her falling into the sea—Dr. Hawes' directions followed with success.  
I omitted several very material parts in my father's journey across the English Channel to Holland, which, that they may not be totally lost I will now faithfully give you in his own words, as I heard him relate them to his friends several times.
 
"On my arrival," says my father, "at Helvoetsluys, I was observed to breathe with some difficulty; upon the inhabitants inquiring into the cause, I informed them that the animal upon whose back I rode from Harwich across to their shore did not swim! Such is their peculiar⁵ form and disposition⁶, that they cannot float or move upon the surface of the water; he ran with incredible swiftness upon the sands from the shore, driving fish in millions before him, many of which were quite different from any I had yet seen, carrying their heads at the extremity⁷ of their tails. I crossed," continued he, "one prodigious⁸ range of rocks, equal in height to the Alps (the tops or highest parts of these marine mountains are said to be upwards⁹ of one hundred fathoms¹¹ below the surface of the sea), on the sides of which there was a great variety of tall, noble trees, loaded with marine fruit, such as lobsters, crabs, oysters¹², scollops, mussels, cockles, &c. &c.; some of which were a cart-load singly! and none less than a porter's! All those which are brought on shore and sold in our markets are of an inferior dwarf¹³ kind, or, properly, waterfalls, i.e., fruit shook off the branches of the tree it grows upon by the motion of the water, as those in our gardens are by that of the wind! The lobster-trees appeared the richest, but the crab³ and oysters were the tallest. The periwinkle is a kind of shrub¹⁴; it grows at the foot of the oyster-tree, and twines¹⁵ round it as the ivy¹⁶ does the oak. I observed the effect of several accidents by shipwreck¹⁷, &c., particularly a ship that had been wrecked¹⁸ by striking against a mountain or rock, the top of which lay within three fathoms of the surface. As she sank she fell upon her si............