A considerable surprise

Working through a huge pile of inherited transcripts and notes made largely by Professor Robinson over many years, I came across a transcript I had forgotten.  Entitled 'For tale of fisherman' is it an incomplete short story written by Clare, judged by its manuscript context, in the late 1820s.  I am still working on it, and searching for the missing text, but here is a short extract.

he was astonished even to fear & saw the waters for miles above him & miles about him & yet he breathed as free from choaking as he did before he started [while dibbing cabbages in his garden]     how it could be he could not tell but so it was    & as his eyes began to clear of their supprise as began to look about him to see the strange country he was in     & every thing was new & nothing like what he had seen be fore     there were large forrests as high as his own wood but leafey & when he came to examine them they were of pearls & corral    there were monsters of extradinary size & shape 

& what he had never expected to have accosted    a lady approached him   not very handsome to be sure   for she had green hair   red eyes   & teeth of odd shape   yet she seemed young & wellshaped     he accosted her but she seemed not to understand him & stooping as if to amuse her self by picking up things from the sand   she offered him a handful     & they were guineas & Portugal dollars & bright as if minted but yesterday    

Pet MS A18 p R254