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QUICK-SAND
QUICK-SAND, a loose quaking sand, into which a ship sinks by her own weight, as soon as the water retreats from her bottom.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 228, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1020.html