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In our gladnefs to hail it, we climbed the 

 ftirouds up to the main top — and there flood 

 to view its entrance into the bay. 



Such a fcene muft have been highly in- 

 terefting, even had it been wholly independent, 

 of the intimate connedion we had with it : the 

 day was fine — the breeze foftand mild, and the 

 furface of the water gently moving. The pic- 

 ture was rich and varied : comprehending, un- 

 der a bird's-eye-view, the town, and neigh- 

 bouring plantations — the bay crowded with 

 fhipping — a great extent of the fine country 

 around — and the wide ocean, together with the 

 numerous veflels of our defired convoy drop* 

 ping with full fails into the harbour. 



You will believe that it was one of the 

 moil pleafing profpe&s we had beheld fince 

 our departure from England. While it feems 

 to fecure the fpeedy removal of our long and 

 anxious fufpenfe, it ftrongly revives the hope 

 of a fuccefsful campaign. 



This fleet, which had been fo often reported 

 at fea, even fo long fince as before we left Eng- 

 land, and which did once fail and return to har- 



