Ixvi ADVERTISEMENT. 



In the view of procuring for a faâ: of fo much 

 importance, all the authenticity of which it is 

 fufceptible, I wrote to a L-ady of my friends, in 

 Normandy, who cultivates the ftudy of Nature 

 with fmgular tafte, in the bofom of her own family, 

 entreating her to apply to the Judge of the Admi- 

 ralty, for certain articles of information from Eng- 

 land, for which I had occafion, I even delayed, 

 in expeftation of her anfwer, the printing off thiâ 

 flieet, for almoft fix weeks. The following are the 

 particulars, which the Judge of the Admiralty of 

 Arromanches had the politenefs to communicate 

 to her, and which flie was fogood as to convey to 

 me, this 24th of February 1788. 



" The bottle was found two leagues off at fea, 

 *' to the right of the parifh of Arromanches, which 

 ** is itfelf two leagues diftant, to the North-eaft, 

 " from the city of Bayeux, on the 9th of May 

 '' 1787, and dcpofited in the Regiftry of the Ad- 

 •* miralty, the loth of the fame month. 



** Mr. Elphinjîon^ the hufband of the Lady to 

 ** whom the letter was addrefled, intimates, that 



to incur the reproach, which they themfelves fometimes impute, 

 with fuch good reafon, to the corps who formerly oppofed the 

 difcpveries that militated agairift their fyftems. I take this op- 

 portunity of doing juftice to the impartiality of the Gentlemen 

 Compilers of the Journal of Paris, as I always did to their 

 taleftts, 



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