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did not receive till last evening. The gun is just the 

 thing I wanted long and strong, the ammunition 

 and accoutrements are all of the first quality, nor 

 can I express too strongly my sense of obligation, 

 at these renewed instances of your kindness and 

 liberality. 



I returned last evening from an excursion in the 

 revenue cutter Swiftsure to the island of Grand 

 Manan. This island is distant some twenty miles 

 from here, is ten miles long, three or four broad, and 

 belongs to his British majesty. We went on board 

 the vessel, Wednesday evening and the anchor was 

 weighed about three the next morning. We passed 

 along the western shore of the island, where we saw 

 steep precipices, sixty, a hundred, or even two hun- 

 dred feet high, offering a very rough reception to 

 any vessel driven upon it by a storm. We passed 

 round the northern extremity of the long island and 

 stopped in a small harbor of an island, two miles 

 east of Grand Manan. We went on shore, and 

 called at the house of the only inhabitant Mr. 

 Frankland, the governor of the island. We did not 

 find this man at home but afterwards met him, 

 when he expressed great pleasure at seeing us, and 

 gave us permission to wander over his island, and 

 to shoot as many birds, and take as many eggs, as 

 we might wish and could find. Accordingly we pro- 

 ceeded over the island. We soon saw gulls enough to 

 convince us that there were an immense number on 

 the island, and at the same time that they were very 

 shy. They flew over our heads in large fldcks, but it 

 was very rarely that any one descended so low, as 

 to be within eighty yards, quite a long distance of 

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