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piftols, the probability is that I (hall return 

 to England trebly armed." 



Were it fit to take up this fubje£t pro- 

 feffionally, or to trouble you with medical 

 difcuflions, I might fhew fome powerful rea- 

 fons why I have a better chance of again fee- 

 ing England, than either of my humorous 

 and pleafant affociates. Our comrade, Weir, 

 fmiles at our calculations, and being in a 

 manner fecure, from having undergone nine 

 years feafoning at Jamaica, feels that he may 

 have to return alone, and report the fate of 

 us all. 



Endlefs, fureiy, are to be the vexations 

 and difappointments attending this expedition ! 

 In every attempt, every branch of it would 

 feem deftined to meet with delay and difafter. 

 In the papers, received by the laft packet, 

 we read that the Cork fleet, which we had 

 flattered ourfelves was within a few leagues of 

 Barbadoes, has put back into Gove harbour. 

 In this we have great and fevere difappoint- 

 ment. It was the divifion with which we 

 were to proceed to our place of deftination, 

 and from the fhips which have already ar- 



