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So far the jf^y? Letter of M. Freido^r i who m a Second to the 
rameM.B^ritodeclareth, that they arc convinced of the fafety 
atid ufefulhefs of the Port of Ce^te, and that a great Trade is 
aaiially begun there: As alfo, that a ftately Earge, exprefly 
made for the folennity, had, together with three of the^greateft 
.Veffels of the G^r^?;^;^^', pafTed with good fiiccefs to A<^//rm^, 
the V-sce whereabout the great Bafbn is. To which he adds, 
that if they continue to work at this Channel with the fame care 
apd fervour they now do, in two years time the whole CoiDmu. 
mcati5n will affuredly be compleated. 
In a third Letter the fame perfon takes notice, that about 
fix weeks before the time of the writing thereof, of three Ships 
.of St. Mak, that were in a . great Storm in the G<'//of Ljiom^ 
two having been broken upon the Sands , for want of knowing 
the Port of CettCy thethird, holding out fomewhat longer , and 
feen from that Cape, and thence fuccour'd by fome Chaloiips, 
which advertis'd him that he was near the faid Port,arr i v'd there 
and was faved. He concludesthis Letter, byaflliring his Friend, 
that if the Channel were as well finifli'd on the fide towards the 
Mediterranean, as 'tis on that towards the Ocean , the Country 
Pnveme might have drawn this year more than a Millionby 
the fale of its Corn In Mdta, Skily , and many parts ofJ^: 
And alfo, that the Undertakers did then refol veto wait upon 
the King, to give his Majefty an affurance of the fuccefs of this 
Work; and that none but igiorant and perverfe Spirits can any 
more doubt of it. 
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