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lofs to make in a country fo replete with different ob- 

 je6ls for fpeculation. 



Having rowed all night, and breakfafted at the new 

 cordon (which was begun to be cut not far from our 

 former poft Devil's Harwar) on a dram and a bifcuit, 

 we came about noon to the eftate Lapaix^ where we 

 dined with the planter, Moniieur Rivieres ; after which 

 Fourgeoud, with his adjutant, proceeded on their voyage 

 to town, while I with another officer went to the fea-fide 

 at the back of the plantation to fhoot fnipes and curlews. 



On our march thither and back again, paffing two 

 pofts of the Society, the flag was hoifted, refrefhments 

 offered us, and every other civility fhewn us that was in 

 the power of the commanding officers. In fliooting, 

 however, we had very little fport, except that of killing 

 fome fnipes, which flew in fuch clouds that they almoil 

 darkened the iky ; fo that by only firing from time to 

 time above our heads at random, we brought down fcores 

 at every fhot, but they were of fuch a diminutive fpe- 

 cies, that they were fcarcely worth the picking up. We 

 might have here killed birds of greater fize, fuch as 

 Jpoon-bills, cranes, red curlews, and %vild ducks of many 

 kinds, had we not unluckily been cut off from the 

 banks on which they were fcattered, by the fea over- 

 flowing the quickfands betwixt us and them. They 

 afforded us, nevcrthelefs, a mofl delightful view, the 

 beech appearing at a diftance like a flieet of fcarlet and 

 purple, embroidered v/ith every other colour. 



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