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The people of the town, alfo, thronged the 

 beach in anxious multitudes. All was bufy 

 expectation. Impatience fcarcely allowed the 

 bags to reach the office : every avenue to which 

 was fo clofely blockaded that the houfe was 

 quite in a ftate of fiege, and the poft-mafter 

 and his manfion in danger of being taken by 

 ftorm. 



I: was about eleven o'clock when the in- 

 fpedor general, Dr.Mafter,and myfelf, follow- 

 ing the common impulfe, went to inquire for 

 our letters and papers ; but we could only ad- 

 vance within fight of the poft-office walls, — ' 

 to approach the door was utterly impoffible* 

 Finding the crowd to be ftill fo deep, we ram- 

 bled about the town, and made calls upon 

 various perfons in order to glean the news* 

 We found that it was the firft January packet, 

 which had arrived, and hence it could not be 

 expeded to bring the regular papers later 

 than to the 6th of that month, although it 

 failed fo late as the 9th of February, having 

 bean detained at Falmouth waiting for a fa* 

 vorable wind. 



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