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American Revolution. ig

CHAP. IL

The Tea arrives on the ccafz of America ^ and is destroyed ai Boston. "Ihc port of Boston is shut up*

i^ll^D it Ctime to pass, "^'Tia^^ it was known to the people of the provinces, what had hQ.tn done in the iiland of Britain, and that the merchant flilps had sailed.

<L, They were greatly moved at the report thereof \ and the moving of the people was like the moving of the tall cedars, when the south wind bloweth upon them!

3. And the people arose^ as the sand of the sea for multitude, to oppose the decree of the king; and the number that conspired against receiving the '^'tt^^ was more than forty thousand men!

4. And when the jfhips had arrived on x^i'Z coall of Columbia, and the mariners were gone down into the fides of the fnips; lo! se- venteen llou-lil;e niea from the proving<i of <!--20