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When any one wants to fpeak with the King, or chief, he advances and fits down before him with his legs acrofs; which is a poiluire to which they are fo much accuf - tomed, that any other mode of fitting is difagreeable to them f.

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It was formerly imagined that this was not a river, but a channel which communicated with the South Sea; but it was fliortly found to be truly a river, which at its mouth is fevenleen leagues acrofs.

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Accordingly, the boats of both fhips, well manned and armed, were flationed acrofs the bay i and before I left the fhip, fome great guns had been fired at two large canoes that were attempting to make their efcape.

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By the 15th of November, Connecticut river was frozen over and the fnow was fo deep, and the feafon fo tempeftu - ous, that a coniiderable number of the cattle - which had been driven on from the Maflachufetts could not be brought acrofs the river.

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The SE end is feparatcd from Invemelsfliire (to which it belongs) by a narrow channel, called the Inner bound j in the jnoft narrow part of which, named the Kyie, cattle are made to fwim acrofs.

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Sticks were laid acrofs the bottom, and the corpfe, which was previoully wrapped in flcins and mats, was let down upon them.

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Isabella, now found in religion, the only confolation for her paft misfortunes; and though the remembrance of her beloved Belville, would often come acrofs her, and fpread a temporary gloom over her mind, yet fhe conftantly ftrove to difpel it by piety and refignation.

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Macres, a river of Africa, which runs acrofs the kingdom of Tripoli, iin. l falls into the Mediterranean, a little to the E

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Tdi WRAXAtL*8 TOUR. ty, and conveys all the articles of trade from Cette to Bourdeauxj acrofs the provinces of Lan - guedoc and Guyenne.

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O T R O U D il I h turns round the body, a little below the breaft, forming a kind of tunic, of which one turn fometimes falls gracefully acrofs the fliouldcr.

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