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Armed Barges are Jent up to defend the Rivers^Defcrip- 

 tion of the Fortrefs New Amjlerdam—A Cruife hi the 

 upper Parts of Rio Cottica and Patamaca^Great 

 Mortality among the Troops— Fiew of the Military Poft at 

 Devil's Harwar. 



/^N the third of July, 1773, at four o'clock in the 

 morning, the fleet caft off from their moorings, and 

 with the ebb tide rowed down as far as the fortrefs New 

 Amfterdam, where, being wind and tide bound, we 

 dropped anchor off the battery. 



It may not be improper, in this place, to defcribe the 

 drefs of our marines, which was blue turned up with 

 fcarlet, fhort jackets, and leather caps. They carried a 

 mufquet, fabre, and piftols ; a large wallet or knapfack 

 acrofs one Ihoulder, and their hammocks flung over the 

 other. While in the woods, they wore trowfers and 

 check fliirts, with fhort linen frocks, as moft adapted to 

 the climate. 



Having firft reviewed both my fliip's companies, 

 four fubalterns, two ferjeants, three eorporal^j thirty- 

 two privates, two pilots> twenty negroes, and my black 

 boy Quaco ; and having placed the arms, confifting of 

 blunderbuffes, fwivels, &c. flowed the luggage, and flung 

 the hammocks, I perufed my orders, which were to cruife 



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