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month, in the one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-fecond year of the Chriftian Fle- glra, was peace proclaimed : and the men of Britain, departed from the land of Columbia.

6. And each man of the hofl of the people of the Provinces, went to his own houfe 5 and there was joy and gladnefs throughout the whole land,

7. May it be a prelude to that peace, men- tioned in the bock of the Prophet Ifaiah : " When the mountain of the Lord's houfe Ihall be eftablifhed upon the tops of the moun- tains, and be exalted above the hills, and all nations fnall flow unto it!'*

8. " And they fhall beat their fwords into plow-fbares, and thdr fpears into pruning- hooks! Nation fhall not lift up fword againil nation, neither fhall they learn war any m.ore!

9. The wiidernefs and the foiitary place fhall be glad, and the defart fhall rejoice, and bloifom as the rofe!"