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546. Cape of Good Hope
before that of the second Dolphin how infallibly will they claim the Discovery of Cypre or Otahite as their own & treat the Dolphins having seen it as a fiction which we were enabled to set forth with some shew of truth as the Endeavour realy did See it a twelvemonth however after Mr De Bougainville which if England chuses to exert her Prior Claim to it as she may hereafter do if the French settle it may be productive of very disagreable consequences
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