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;778. Manilla fhip is oblio-ed to make, or elfe have returned to the 



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coaft of America, thoroughly refitted, after an abfence of 

 two months. How happy would Lord Anfon have been, and 

 what hardfhips would he have avoided, if he had known 

 that there was a group of iflands, half way between Ame- 

 rica and Tinian, where all his wants could have been 

 effedlually fupplied; and in defcribing which, the elegant 

 hiftorian of that voyage, would have prefented his reader 

 with a more agreeable picTiure, than I have been able to draw 

 in this chapter I 9 



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