Crossword-Solution: TONNANT 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The MAJESTIC, Captain Westcott, got entangled with the main rigging of one of the French ships astern of the ORIENT, and suffered dreadfully from that three-decker's fire; but she swung clear, and closely engaging the HEUREUX, the ninth ship on the starboard bow, received also the fire of the TONNANT, which was the eighth in the line.

Indeed, the following passage of the preface, in which De Maillet is supposed to speak of the Indian philosopher Telliamed, his _alter ego,_ might have been written by the most philosophical uniformitarian of the present day:-- "Ce qu'il y a d'étonnant, est que pour arriver à ces connaissances il semble avoir perverti l'ordre naturel, puisqu'au lieu de s'attacher d'abord à rechercher l'origine de notre globe il a commence par travailler à s'instruire de la nature.

Est-il étonnant que les bois tords pris à la racine d'arbres qui avoient le pied dans l'eau qu'on n'a pas eu attention de faire sécher à couvert, s'échauffent quand ils se trouvent enfermés entre deux bordages? Je ne vois donc pas que les raisons alléguées centre les vaisseaux de Québec soient suffisantes pour en faire cesser la construction.

The French Admiral Magon was still defending the _Algesiras_, attacked by the _Tonnant_; he wanted to board her, but his deck was swept by the grape shot of fresh assailants.

Let me see.” At first he made a motion as if he would have snatched them out of my hands, but speedily appeared to give up the idea, merely murmuring “What can it signify now?” I continued to read--“Chanticleer from a cruise--Tonnant from Barbadoes Pique from Port-au-Prince.