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LETTER XIII. 



To the fame, 



The Author leaves Rochefort \ he meets with three 

 Englijli Merchant-Ship^ taken hy M de Place, 

 of which one was burnt and another funk. He 

 flops at the Jfle of Grenada. Navigation along 

 Jamaica. 



S I R, 



KS^"^ Wrote to you from Rochefort, that we 

 ^ I ¥| intended to fet out in December 1757; 

 iwL^^jrf ^ut the convoy deftined to fuccour 

 Cape Breton having in part been taken by the 

 Englifh fleet, we were obliged to fit out ano- 

 ther. During that time a fquadron of ten great 

 Englifh men of war having alarmed the coaft of 

 Junis^ that has retarded us till the month of 

 May, This fquadron difappearing, we fet fail 

 on the tenth of the fame month. 



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