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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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