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^^-orthy men amongft them, who followed not after filthy lucre, nor that which maketh for itrife.

19. And when the army of the king of Britain was fleeing into the iliips, there were fome of the fed of tories who fled with them, and they left much of their (tuff behind in the town, and it became a prey to the hod of the people of the provinces.

20. And it was fo, that when the army of the king of Britain had gotten into the fliips, they fet fail for the country, called in the La- tin tongue, Nova-Scotia, which being inter- preted, is New Scotland. And the fliips caft anchor in the river, before the chief town of the province, and the name of the town was Halifax,

21. And it came to pass, that the chief cap- tain of the hofl: of the people of the provinces, entered into the town* that had been occupied by the army of the king of Britain, and the


 * Boflon.