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At Princes Island

& went along shore, telling all whoom I met that I was in search of plants which indeed was also the case, in about 2 hours we arrivd at a place where were about 4 or 5 houses, here we met an old man & venturd to ask him questions about the town, he said it was very distant, but we not much relying on his information proceeded on our way, as did he in our company, atempting however several times to lead us out of the pathway which we were now in, we remaind firm to our purpose & soon got sight of our desird Object, the old man then turnd our freind & accompanied us to the houses, I suppose near 400 in number, divided into the old & new town, between which was a brackish river,  in the old town we met with several old acquaintances, one of whoom at the rate of /2d a head undertook to transport us over the river, which he did in two very small Canoes which we prevented from oversetting by laying them alongside each other & holding them together, in this manner we safely went through our navigation & arrivd at the new

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