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that the people of the Provinces had gotteu polTeiiion thereof.

CHAP. XLTIL

Sj)ain declares zvar again :t Great Britain, FrO'* ceedings of the British in Carolina,

IN the fixth month, on thefixteenth day of the month, the king of Spain joined himfelf to the enemies of the king of Britain.

2. For the fervants Oi George the king had in a former war, taken a ftrong hold from, the Spanifli king, the name thereof was Gibraker.

3. It was fituated near the fea, and was a denrable place, inafmuch as no fiiip could pafs, without fird obtaining permifiion oftha governor of the garrifon.

4. Moreover it v/as built upon a rock, that

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