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put to fea, and make for Penfacola or Spirito 3at^.9-a, if 



neceflary. 



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age, and would be a moft advantageous fituation for a 

 filliery, fait pans, &c. The bay of St. Andrew juft ad- 

 jacent is as much larger as it Is unlike to any thin<>- yet 

 publiilied, it extends from South-Eaft to North-Weft, and 

 is a moft commodious habour for veffels of 13 feet draught,, 

 The bay of SanctaRofa is ftill more extenfive; it lies from 

 South-Well to North-Eaft, but can eafily anfwer for the 

 Penfacola pettiaugers, which by the long channel within 

 the ifland, and the river which falls into the head of the 

 bay, and extends North Eaft almoft to the Lower Creek 

 Nation, may trade with the Indians. The lands upon this 

 river at fome diftance from the bay are good, but all along 

 this coaft there is little elfe than a fandy beach and pine 



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Pearls, Pafcogoula, the Tombechy, and Albama, which 

 fall into the bay of Mobile, the bay and river of Perdidoj 

 juft contiguous to Penfacola, the Scamhy, and fo forth, I 



refer you entirely to Mr. , who is a much better 



judge than I am of the advantages which may be made of 

 their produce, &c. 



I ftiall fend you a defcription of an univerfal magnetic: 

 needle- It gives the variation and dip at the fame time,, 



the laft of which I prefume with more accuracy than any 

 yet extant. It anfwers in all parts of the world, without 

 the addition or alteration of any poife, fuch as our beft com- 

 paffes now have. A colledion of American magnetical 

 obfervations is much wanted; with the courfe of the line^ 

 of no variation in-land, and the dip, which I imagine will 

 be found greater than in the fame latitudes on the European 



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various could be made the better- Thia was a fubje£t 

 which I had defpaired of ever feeing reduced to any kind: 

 of regularity, but I am now well fatisficd that it may. I 

 have great expedations from the plan of your Society, and: 



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