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of Bodon, and they were fain to flee into the wildernefs, and leave the fliips a prey to the men of Britain.

22. And the people v/ent every man to hU own place, and the garrifon v^as faved,

CHAP. XLV.

Soiiihern expeditions ^General Frevoit marches towards Charlestown^ <^V.

1.^ OW the war raged In many places in the land of Columbia :

2. It is a mighty continent, and is bounded by the lands and feas near the Artie Pole, cu the North \ and by the Atlantic fea on the Eaft; and by the Southern ocean on the South; and by the Pacific ocean, v^hich di- vides it from Afia on the Wefl; the length thereof, being between eight and nine thou- fand miles, from North to South; and about three thoufand miles is the breadth thereof.