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and to gain them for his own Property ; 
céming to me for Advice. 
When. I underftood their Situation, and 
how they had pofleffed themfelves of fo 
ftrong an Hold, and to all Appearance im- 
pregnable, I reprefented to him, not, only 
the Uncertainty and Improbability of Suc+ 
cefs, but alfo the great Hazard he would run 
in fo defperate an Attempt, which might 
coit him his very Life. I therefore prefled 
him moft earneftly to leave them in the 
quiet and peaceable Pofleffion of fuch an a» 
oreeable Retreat, which they had fo prudently 
chofe for their ftated, conftant Refidence. 
_ For tho’ it might be praéticable, by one 
Means or other, to force them thence, I 
was perfuaded, whoever fhould make. the 
Trial would dearly repent it ; therefore hoped 
le would not be guilty of fuch a rafh and 
foolith Adtion. | 
Upon this Remonftrance he feemed to | 
cool a little, and in doubt what he had beft 
to da; whether to proceed in the Project 
he had formed, or to drop the Defign. 
- At daft, he defiring I would view the 
Place, I went with him; and by the Help 
of a Ladder, laying an Ear clofe to the 
Aperture, or Place of Entrance, I quickly 
perceived that they were at no great Diftance 
from the Paflage ; which he no fooner un- 
derftood, but he renewed his Addrefs, that I 
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