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APPENDIX. 



It was not my intention to have added another 

 word to the preceding Iheets ; but, on looking 

 over Mr. Prater's account of the mutiny, I 

 thought it a pity that fuch a i>eau jnorceau Ihould 

 be entrufled to the perifhable archives of a newf- 

 paper. It is in facl an unique^ and will, no 

 doubt, recommend him to promotion, as it is 

 plain that no fuch petty impediments as fogs or 

 mifts can obftrucfl the lyncean eye O'f one that 

 (according to his own account) can fee through 

 an oak plank ; befides, as he can defcribe affairs 

 which he never faw, with all the precifion of an 

 eye-witnefs, his talents, at making official re- 

 ports, muft be truly wonderful. In order to 

 do him juftice, I cannot forbear giving his 

 own words ; and I doubt not that my readers 

 will, with me, pronounce him 



Tarn Marti quam Mercurio, 



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