_Preservation of Life at Sea._--On the road between Yarmouth and
Gorleston is a small obelisk or monument, with a device of a ship in a
storm, a rocket with a rope attached just passing over it. The
inscription on it may interest some of your readers:
"In commemoration of the
12th Feb. 1808, on which DAY,
directly eastward of this spot,
the FIRST LIFE was saved from
SHIPWRECK, by means of a rope
attach'd to a shot propelled
by the force of gunpowder
over the stranded vessel.
A method now universally
adopted, and to which at least
1000 sailors of different nations
owe their preservation.
1842."