The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

On the 4th of August, two men belonging to the Advice, at Dundee, having gone in quest of a boat which had drifted, they procured an old salmon-coble on the beach near Invergowrick, and put to sea. They had not sailed far when the bottom of the coble gave way, and she filled in deep water. Neither of the men could swim; but catching hold of the opposite side of the boat, they floated until they were observed from the shore. A crowd of people soon assembled on the beach, who could render them no assistance. A ploughman attempted to carry a rope to the men by swimming his horse, but becoming terror-struck, he returned without effecting his humane purpose, and could not be prevailed on again to make the hazardous attempt. At this critical moment, Lachlan Macgregor, a young boy, servant to Daniel Mackenzie, at Arnfield, was passing, mounted on a blue pony, the property of John Ross, tenant in Blackness. He took the rope and dashed into the water with his pony. When at some distance from the shore, he too grew timid, and was in the act of returning, when a heart-rending groan from the unfortunate sufferers inspired him with new courage, and determined him to risk his life to save them. He succeeded in handing to them the rope. Unaccustomed to manage a horse in the water, the boy now turned the pony too sudden, and they both disappeared! For a moment, the spectators suffered the most anxious suspense for the safety of the boy; but the pony soon re-appeared, and bore his intrepid rider to the shore. The two men were then drawn gently from the water and saved.

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