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“We have but very indifferent men in general. Great part of those who ship for seamen know very little of the matter.”
“The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.”
“We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.”
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