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are thoroughly fwept and wafhed, arid it is 

 matter of furprize to us to fee the prodigious 

 quantity of dirt, of remnants of food, and 

 various other fpecies of filth which collect 

 within four-and-twenty hours. Its utility is 

 alfo further extended, in the general move- 

 ment it creates, and the refrefhing coolnefs it 

 brings to every one on board. Were the voy- 

 age to be long, our experience of the few paft 

 days feems to affure us that this daily wafhing 

 would not merely be our beft, but, perhaps, 

 our only prefervative from ficknefs. 



Tlie expedition confifts of about thirteen 

 hundred men of the 39th, 93d, and 99th 

 regiments commanded by Lieutenant Colonels 

 Tilfon, Hiflop and Gammell, and a party of 

 artillery, under command of Captain Bagot. 

 The fquadron of the fleet employed with us 

 is commanded by Commodore Parr, and con- 

 fifts of the Malabar of 50 guns, La Pique, Le 

 Babet, and the Undaunted frigates — to which 

 are added, the Grenada armed tranfport, with 

 feveral floops, and fchooners. 



At the time we were failing from Carliile 

 bay on the morning of the 15th, aa alarm 



