Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the British Admiral, Vol. 3 of 4: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History From the Earliest Periods Containing the Naval Hiflory of great 'britain, from the acce ion of her majeily queen Anne, to the union of the two kingdoms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."