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in the fongs of the virgins, nor jQiall the crown of honour encircle thy temples.

27. Will not every one that meets thee, point with the finger, and fay : Lo! there goeth the man who facrificed his honour on the altar of mammon, and bartered away his good name for the fake of filthy lucre?

CHAP. LIII.

General Green is appointed to the command of thi Southern arniy^ in the room of General Gates* Successful expedition of Lieutenant CoL Wash' ington^ i^c.

1 N the year of the Chriftian Hegira^ one thoufand feven hundred and eighty, in the fixth month, on the fixteenth day of the month, the refidue of thefflRtiy of Columbia in the Southern province, colleded together at a certain place called Hilllborough,