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walls of the city; and moreover they hoped that their brethren in the ProvinceSj would come to their help.

20. But when all hopes were fled, and the men of Britain were preparing to affault the town; the men of war who were therein, judged it to be mofl expedient to hearken to the words of Clinton the king's captain, for they could not long withftand the force of the deftroying engines, which cad out of their inouths fearful things, and horrible to name!

21. They were called bombs, and were made of iron; they fell into the town, they burd afunder, and the broken pieces thereof Hew about the flreets of the city : and woe unto that man that was fmitten by them! Yea verily, for they marred v/hatfoever they touched, and refpecled not the perfon of any. 1

22. And in the fifth month, on the eleventh day of ths month, the city was delivered up 13 the men of Britain j and the men of war