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 Iland, hrinking from the blat, and huddering at the billows.

was a colony which could never become independent, for it never could be able to maintain itelf. The neceary upplies were annually ent from England, at an expence which the Admiralty began to think would not quickly be repaid. But hame of deerting a project, and unwillingnes to contend with a projector that meant well, continued the garrion, and upplied it with regular remittances of tores and proviion.

of which we were almot weary ourelves, we did not expect any one to envy; and therefore uppoed that we hould be permitted to reide in Falkland’s Iland, the undiputed lords of tempet-beaten barrennes.

, on the 28th of November 1769, Captain Hunt, oberving a Spanih chooner hovering