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preparing our little vessel for a third voyage, it became requisite to give her a considerable repair; and, among many other things, there was an absolute necessity for her being fresh coppered; but, from the pretended scarcity of copper sheathing in the colony and other circumstances that opposed the measure, we found more than a common difficulty in effecting it. The cutter was careened at a place appointed for the