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His Excellency
Sir John Gaspard LeMarchaud,
&c &c

Yr Excellency - I have the satisfaction of presenting through you as the civil head of the Govt of Nova Scotia, and its dependencies, a well assorted library for mariners, and for the seamen stationed on Sable Isd. Of the several hundred Vols with maps and engravings already forwarded two months since,