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We thank you for your obliging Intimations of the peculiar Danger of the Southern Seas; We are sensible of the hazard of Navigation in these stormy times, when the Political Gates as well as those of the Season threaten our Undertakings with Ship Wreck; — however at all Hazards we will have some Flour, Bar, & Pig Iron, having a fine air-Furnace, which wants only this last Article to make the Manufactory of Cannon effectual & Adequate. . . .