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LETTER XL 



Dear Sir, 



ILaft night tranfcribed, verbatim, the follow-- 

 lowing Article from Ireland, out of the Lo/i-- 

 don Eveni?ig Pojt, viz, " YelT:erday, there being 

 " a Spring- Tide, a vafl army of Porpuffes came 

 " up at Lough Foyl, m purfuit of our Salmon : 

 *' As they rolled by Londonderry, the Sailors pur* 

 " fued them in their Boats, and killing them all 

 the way, drove them fix miles farther up the 

 Lough to the Flatts, about Mount Gavellng ; 

 there a new Chafe began by our Fifliermen and 

 the, Country People, who ftretched a great Net 

 acrofs the Lough, and drove them up to the 

 narrow paffages of the great Ifland, which lies 

 a mile below this Town ; there they all fell 

 on them pell-mell with Guns, Swords, Hatch- 

 ets, and all kinds of Weapons, and made a ter- 

 rible flaughter : There were killed here above 

 an hundred and fixty, befides as many more 



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" which were mortally wounded, and carried off 

 " by the Flood; including thofe the Londonderry 

 " Men killed, there have at leaft fallen in this bat- 

 '^ tie five hundred PorpuflTes, generally weighing 



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