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if required, by Pipes from the Reservoir* 
The advantages which would be procured 
by bringing one of the Streams down to 
the Town, are too obvious to need being 
insisted on : whatever ex pence might occur 
by constructing the necessary Works, 
would soon be repaid by the Shipping; 
and the ease with which they would then 
be supplied with this essential article, 
would induce many Commanders to take 
in Water, who otherwise would not do so. 
INHABITANTS* 
From the appearance of many places 
in the interior of the Island, and the num¬ 
ber of Tombs which were discovered, soon 
after the Settlement was formed, the tradi¬ 
tion of its being formerly inhabited, seems 
entitled to credit. It is asserted, that 
tliere were once near Three Thousand 
People resident on it, who chiefly sub- 
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