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258 American Revolution^

3. It is a land which our fore- fathers knew not, even Solomon with all his wifdom was a flranger to it.

4. The country was called Columbia, in fimiiitude to the name of a famous fea cap- tain,* a native of Genoa, who through many perils arrived on the coaft thereof, in the iourtcen hundred and ninety- fecond year of the Chriftian Hegira, on the tenth month, on the feventeenth day of the month, was the land found out.

5. And it came to pafs, that the fervants of the king of Britain in the Southern pro- vince, even in Georgia, moved towards Port- roy;il in Carolina, and landed on the Ifiand to take poiTeiHon of it.

6. But it cam.e to pafs, that Moultrie, a mighry man of war, drove them off the Illaad; and a great part of the ofBcers a- mongft the men of Britain, were llain j the

^ CbriHopber Columbus,