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The breeze was increasing, and Mr. Overslaugh, whose pretensions to nautical knowledge were considered very shallow by his fellow amateurs, remarked to my husband: "If this wind holds, I should not wonder if we are aground in less than two hour."

The poor woman had probably been aground, some time, on the Hudson Overslaugh or the Shrewsbury Flats, and supposed that nothing but low tide could prevent going up to Paris by steamship.

P. 513, OVER-SETTING, invalid link: 'Upset'; OVERSLAUGH, 'roaster' amended to roster; OXYRINCHUS, originally 'OXYRHINCUS'.

Verditege Hook, the Dunderberg, and the Overslaugh, were names of terror to even the bravest skipper.

The Castleton Bar or "overslaugh," as it was known by the river pilots, impeded for years navigation in low water.