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came here from the stage to mform me that a 

 vessel of mine was arrived from England. I im- 

 mediately went down there, and found her to be 

 the Reconciliation, John Kettle master; a new 

 brigantine which had been taken from the Amer- 

 icans, and purchased for me this spring. She 

 is about eighty tons burden; is laden with provi- 

 sions and stores; she brought out some new serv- 

 ants from England and Ireland. B}^ my letters I 

 find, that the Countess of Effingham is ordered to 

 load with salt at Lisbon, to which place she carried 

 a cargo of corn on freight for Leghorn, and to come 

 from thence here. 



Sunday, July 19, 1778. The Otter coming up 

 at ten this morning; I put some empty tierces on 

 board her, and sailed immediately for Wliite-bear 

 River, where I arrived at four in the afternoon; 

 but found no fish going, and only seventy tierces 

 on shore. 



Wednes., July 22, 1778, At four o'clock this 

 morning we weighed anchor, towed out of the 

 river, and anchored again a little below the mouth 

 of it, where we moored. Leaving one man on 

 board the shalloway, to take care of her, I got into 

 the yawl with captain Kettle, Jack, and the other 

 two sailors; and rowed up Eagle River to bring 

 some of the salmon-craft from thence. 



On entering the river, we observed a wolvering 

 going along on the south shore of it, which is the 

 first I ever saw alive, unless in a trap. When we 

 got to the first rapid, which is as high as a boat 

 can go, we saw a brace of white-bears in the river 



