A VOYAGE TO 
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1778. Here they might always have found plenty, and have been 
FeWry^ a mon tli’s fure fail of the very part of California, 
which the Manilla fhip is obliged to make, or elfe have re¬ 
turned to the coaft of America, thoroughly refitted, after an 
abfence of two months. How happy would Lord Anfon 
have been, and what hardfhips would he have avoided, if 
he had known that there was a group of iflands, half way 
between America and Tinian, where all his wants could 
have been effectually fupplied; and in defcribing which, 
the elegant hiftorian of that voyage, would have prefented 
his reader with a more agreeable picture, than I have been 
able to draw in this chapter ? 
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