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their anchors, and loosed their scils to the v/ind, and steered their course westward for the land of Columbia.

CHAP. V.

Fresh troops arrive from Great Britain. The haiile on Bunker's HilL

-riND it came to pass, after that the army of rhe king of Britain had gotten fafe to land, that the people of the provinces consulted to- gether concerning the war*

2. Now there was a mountain* on a neck of land, that overlooked the town, and the people of the provinces desired to have it for a place of defence, and essayed to take pos- session thereof by subtility.

3* And they went up to the top of the mountain, and they toiled hard all night, and


 * Bunker's KM.