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long range. The important fact was that though 

 we had nine guns less, yet, at a broadside, they 

 threw half as much metal again as those of our 

 antagonist. With such odds in our favor it would 



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have been a disgrace to have been beaten. The 

 water was too smooth for our two brigs to show 

 at their best ; but this very smoothness rendered our 

 gunboats more formidable than any of the British 



