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Page 56
... shewed many strange sights , burning glasses , wilde firewoorkes , gunnes , hookes , writing and reading , spring - clockes that seeme to goe of themselves and many other things that wee had were so strange unto them , and so farre ...
... shewed many strange sights , burning glasses , wilde firewoorkes , gunnes , hookes , writing and reading , spring - clockes that seeme to goe of themselves and many other things that wee had were so strange unto them , and so farre ...
Page 127
... shewed our men his leaks , and proposed , that ours would spare him hands to pump in lieu of any thing he could spare for our relief . He promised however to keep us company , and give us a tow to help to weather the cape , if occasion ...
... shewed our men his leaks , and proposed , that ours would spare him hands to pump in lieu of any thing he could spare for our relief . He promised however to keep us company , and give us a tow to help to weather the cape , if occasion ...
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... shewed in his looks a more than ordinary resentment ; still describing ( as he could ) the care he had taken for us , and impossibility of accomplishing our ends by our- selves , and that we should surely faint in the way and die ...
... shewed in his looks a more than ordinary resentment ; still describing ( as he could ) the care he had taken for us , and impossibility of accomplishing our ends by our- selves , and that we should surely faint in the way and die ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
GEORGE MASON 17251792 | 17 |
JOHN RANDOLPH 17731833 | 19 |
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