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 derous contest which had been desolating our world. ¬ " There is near us another island, in union with Armata, and forming with her one em- pire^which came in for her full proportion of this glory; the hardy sons of Patricia were in all our ranks, and her soil produced the immor- tal hero who conducted the battle. ¬" No victory in human annals ever produced results so sudden and extraordinary. — The ad- versary, whose ambition and whose boast had been our destruction — who had built a thousand vessels to convey his armies to our shores — and who was then erecting a column, even within our view, to be crowned with his colossal statue pointing at us with his finger for his own, now fled when no one was pursuing, and gave him- self up as a prisoner to the commander of a single ship. ¬ " Such a fate of so wonderful a being affords a ¬con- ¬