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not a whit the better for it : what they gained in one place, they often lod as much in ano- ther.

2. Neverthelefs, it went to the heart of the king of Britain, that he rniiO: lofe his pof- fefiions in the land of Columbia; howbeit, there was no remedy, for his treafure was expended, and the people were weary of the war.

3. Then he confented that there fhould be peace, and that the people of the Provinces fhould be governed by their own People, in- dependent of the kingdom of Britain \ and he refigned unto them his power and kingly authority.

4. And the Provinces in the land of Co- lumbia, were called by a new name,* and they became one people, and the great San- hedrim ruled over them.

5. And on the twentieth day of the fecond


 * United States of North America.