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 THE

LIFE AND TRANSACTIONS

OF

PETER BROWN.

SOME time ago, there lived a man Perinrin Cornwall, whose nam as the sequel will show, we are not at berry to insert. He was, blessed with ample possession and fruitful issue, happy only in a younger son, who, wh he left his father, went under the nan of Peter Brown.

Peter being of a wily and enterprising disposition, joined with crew of smugglers who went a roving to sea, and so became pirates, making prize of all who they could master; and so increased wealth, number, and strength that the Straits they advanced upon a lan Turkish vessel, richly laden, where th got a great booty; but their powder I mischance taking fire, our hero trustin