As the particulars connected with this occurrence come out in the statements made by the two survivors,, appended to this communication, I need only add that, although perfect "certainty cannot be arrived at, it would appear more than probable that the Normand struck on the Tortoise Rock, " small reef about eight or ten miles to the north Light-house on Fisher Island, and a-half miles to the west of this Notwithstanding.the close proximity of the latter, however, nothing what-over was observable from the ship, and all hands seem to have believed, up to the moment of going ashore, that they were in mid-channel, Judging from the course ud which is clearly deposed to by both survivors, the ship seems to have come too shitply round the north end of Formosa, and when caught by the strong sot of the current, she was driven still more to, the eastward of the-position she was believed tu be in, It appears that the vations got on Saturday, the 7th, both forenvonand xt mid-day, were the last indications of the ship's position obtained, as they do not seem to have sighted Turnabout nor any other light before the captain changed the course from 8.W. toS.W. W.on the Sunday morning, after hauling "in the patent log, at 8 o'clock. After all, these or any other surmises xre now unimportant, and can never be verified.
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