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 almot every day an hundred geee to each hip, by pelting them with tones. Not content with phyick and with food, he earched yet deeper for the value of the new dominion. He dug in quet of ore, found iron in abundance, and did not depair of nobler metals.

thus fertile and delightful, fortunately found where none would have expected it, about the fiftieth degree of outhern latitude, could not without great upinenes be neglected. Early in the next year (January 8, 1766) Captain Macbride arrived at Port Egmont, where he erected a mall blockhoue, and tationed a garrion. His decription was les flattering. He found, what he calls, a mas of ilands and broken lands, of which the oil was nothing but a bog, with no better propect than that of barren mountains, beaten by torms almot perpetual. Yet this, ays he, is ummer, and if the winds of winter hold their natural proportion, thoe who lie but two