Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
when the fourteenth night was come—from the time they left Fair Havens.
as we were driven—drifting
up and down in Adria—the Adriatic, that sea which lies between Greece and Italy.
about midnight the shipmen deemed—no doubt from the peculiar sound of the breakers.
that they drew near some country—"that some land was approaching them." This nautical language gives a graphic character to the narrative.
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