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over to the city of York, and all the people followed after him.

40. And the people rejoiced, inafmuch as they had efcapedfrom the hoft of Columbia, for they had learned to fear; neither did they deride the fervants of the great Sanhe- drim as at the beginning.

CHAP. XXXIX.

The French fleet arrive at the Delaware^ and pursue the British fleet. Their design frustra- ted — disabled by a storm — rendezvous at Bos» io7i. Adion on Rhode Island.

And it was fo, that when the king of Gaul had fitted out a fleet of Ihips, he fent them to the land of Columbia to help the peo- ple of the Provinces, and to fight with the iliips of the king of Britain.

2, But it came to pafs, that the navy of the king of Britain efcaped out of the river.