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forces in Ammcn : We have already leen Dutch, French, and 
JBngUfiy all at the fanrie time in our harbour, who all wondered 
what the reft of the world have been doing, to fuffer us to come 
to the beft harbour in America ^ captain Long came in 8 days 
after, to whom we believe we were a great eye-fore, tho' he faid 
nothing; he commanded the Rupert 'Prize, a fmall Englijh 
man of war fitted out by the king, but upon what defign weknow 
not 5 only that he pretends it was to fearch for a filver- wreck 5 
he was a month on this coaft before he founded it ; he converied 
with the natives and put men afliore in fome places to take pof- 
leffion for the king of Great 'Britain, but none within 15 leagues 
of us ; having learned from the natives that we were here, he 
came in his long-boat, as he laid, to lee us, but we believe it was 
only to know the certainty of what he feared was too true : He 
had told all the Indian captains, that he came only to try their 
inclinations, and that there was a large fleet coming with a great 
many people to fettle amongft them and defend them againft 
their enemies, he meant Englip that were to come by his direc- 
tion, but our fleet coming withm a month after, they all looked 
upon us to be the people the captain fpoke of3 lb that whatever 
prel'ents he made them before that time, were as much for our 
advantage as if we ourfelves had given them. 
A Polypus of the Lungs 5 by M. Buffiere. Phil. Tranf. 
N°2(J9. p. 545. 
A Boy 5 years of age, died at Kenfijgtoi-: of a confumption 5 
a year before he died he was troubled with a dry cough, 
which continued ever after, fpitting now and then a little blood j 
10 or I z days before he died, his nurie took notice of Ibme thick, 
skin, as (lie laid, he fpit out; his phyfician having examined one 
of them, found it had the confidence and fliape of a velTel, which 
made him think it might perhaps be Ibme vefTel of the lungs- 
the child being dead, he opened his body, and found the Omentum 
quite deftitute of fat, as were allb all the other parts, and the 
glands of the mefentery were hardened and blackifh; in the left 
fide of the lungs he found a little purulent Sanies j the infide of 
xkitT'racheaox wind-pipe was incruftated with a flimy mem- 
brane, inlbmuch that that pellicle made a perfect vefTel from the 
larynx to the very extremity of the Bronchicf, from which it 
eafily came off without breaking either the trunk or branches : 
The Dr. obferved that it adhered to the inner coat of the 7r/?r/&6'<^, 
only by Ibme fmall filaments, which were lb tender as to be eafily 
broken off, which made the Dr. think that the production oi 
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