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The Massachusetts Spy Domestic News October 10, 1771
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
What is this article about?
A whaling crew member, Marshal Jenkins, was seized by a whale after it bit the boat in two, but was thrown back and recovered after about a fortnight.
Quality green show the numbers
Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 97.18% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 100.0% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 97.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 90.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
Clipping
Full Text
We hear from Edgartown, that a vessel lately arrived there from a whaling voyage; and that in her voyage, one Marshal Jenkins, and others, being in a boat that struck a whale, she turned and bit the boat in two, took said Jenkins in her mouth, and went down with him; but on her rising threw him into one part, from whence he was taken on board the vessel by the crew, being much bruised; and that in about a fortnight after, he perfectly recovered. This account we have from undoubted authority.
What sub-type of article is it?
Accident
Shipping
What keywords are associated?
Whaling Accident
Whale Attack
Marshal Jenkins
Edgartown
What entities or persons were involved?
Marshal Jenkins
Where did it happen?
Edgartown
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Edgartown
Event Date
Lately
Key Persons
Marshal Jenkins
Outcome
jenkins was much bruised but recovered after a fortnight.