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I have a boat on stocks, sixty feet in length, which I hope to finish by this day week, I suppose she will carry between two and three hundred men; another of the same size, is to be put up to-day, so that I hope soon to have vessels enough to move on. If any more powder can be got, I hope it will be sent, as not half a ton will be left, if so much, when the troops are completed to a pound a man.