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of these commissioners; and a copy, which 1 

 made for the purpose, was deposited with the 

 Governor of Hahfax, which copy the Duke of 

 Kent had, in the year 1800, when he was 

 Commander in Chief in that Province, got from 

 the Governor as a curiosity to keep, on account 

 of the beauty of the writing and of the figures, 

 having hired a person to take a copy of it to 

 leave with the Governor. Another motive was, 

 because it was in my hand- writing. He showed 

 it to me at Halifax, when I was there, on my 

 way from the United States to England in the 

 year ISOO. When I told him the whole of the 

 6tory, he asked me how much the Commissioners 

 rjave me ; and, when I told him not a farthing, 

 he exclaimed most bitterly, and said that thou- 

 sands of pounds had, first and last, been paid by 

 the country for what I had done. 



184. I mention this as only one instance among 

 many. I, with nobody but the soldiers of the 

 regiment under me_, and furnished with nothing 

 but tools and iron work, built a barrack, dug the 

 stones, burnt the lime, dug the sand, or, rather, 

 wheeled it up from the river ; built the chimneys, 

 cut the trees, sawed the boards and timber, split 

 the shingles, made the sashes for the windows ; 

 and with nothing given me but the iron work 

 and the glass for the windows, with these ex- 

 ceptions, we had nothing but the earth to look 



