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length of the ship and upon it was built a large round house. 2.ndly that these alterations had cost government 14000. Monstrous absurdity, every body who is acquainted with the India trade knows, that an Indian man, tho near twice as big as the resolution, is built, rigged, and filled with all necessary stores, for 10000. Yet absurd as it this assertion is, it some men of high rank have taken pains to propagate it among the ignorant.
3.dly that the ship as she was when restord was sufficient for Mr. Banks and his people, if he chose to go. by crowding the common men into a space so small that they must have been sickly, the same quantity of room was offerd to him as he had in his last voyage; which he refusd, because, he who had now engag'd 5 artists to go with him, had in his last voyage, found his accommodations too small for the three