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The Virginia Gazette Foreign News September 21, 1739
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
Mr. Whitfield, to the satisfaction of London master mechanics, sailed this week from Rotherhithe on the Elizabeth, Capt. Hall, bound for South Carolina via Philadelphia, where he is expected to profit from his followers' money.
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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
- 97.81% 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
- 98.55% 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
- 93.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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Full Text
To the great Satisfaction of the Master Mechanicks about Town, many of whose giddy brain'd Workfolks, Male and Female, have neglected their Business to follow Mr. Whitfield, ('til they have wanted a Sunday's Dinner,) that Gentleman embark'd this Week on board the Elizabeth, Capt. Hall, now lying at Rotherhith, bound for South-Carolina: She touches at Philadelphia, where the Preacher, no doubt, will to a great Advantage dispose of his valuable Cargo, purchas'd with the Fool's Pence he has talk'd out of the Pockets of his Lunatick Audience.
What sub-type of article is it?
Human Interest
Religious Affairs
What keywords are associated?
Whitfield Departure
Elizabeth South Carolina
Rotherhithe Preacher
What entities or persons were involved?
Mr. Whitfield
Capt. Hall
Where did it happen?
Rotherhithe, London
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Rotherhithe, London
Event Date
This Week
Key Persons
Mr. Whitfield
Capt. Hall