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been dispersed over the country, and was found 
by us still posted up in the town, forbidding any 
native to trade with the English, under pain of 
death. This proclamation had been printed 
during the absence of the count, but kept in a 
chest till his arrival; and was certainly issued by 
his special direction. 
While things were in this state in Iceland, 
Mr. Phelps had been planning a second expedi¬ 
tion, prepared with more care than the former, 
and upon a more extensive scale, with the hope 
of accomplishing his favorite project, and of re¬ 
pairing the losses he had sustained. He therefore, 
early in the summer, got ready in London the 
Margaret and Anne, a fine ship carrying ten 
guns, provided with a letter of marque, and 
loaded with a cargo of such articles as had been 
pointed out by Mr. Savigniac as most likely to be 
saleable, and he, at the same time, dispatched the 
Flora, a brig, with grain for the use of the island. 
So much had he this object at heart, that he 
determined himself to sail in the former of these 
vessels, to avoid all mistakes, and see that nothing 
might interrupt the harmony he hoped to find 
established; and he took with him Mr. Jor¬ 
gensen, whose acquaintance with the transactions 
that had taken place during the winter, added to 
his knowledge of the Icelandic merchants and of 
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