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them, and the expedition be not far from the Tsar’sown coasts. Those marked with a cross are oldand crazy, and those marked N3 can’t carry sailwhen it blows anything hard, and consequently unfitfor distant enterprises.

Ships’ NamesHango Head

Lesnoy ....Fredrikstadt

St. Peter ....St. AndrewFreedmaker

North Eagle (Severnoi Oril )St. Alexander .

Neptunus ....Le Firme .

Revell ....Moscow ....Ingermanland .

Isaak Victoria .

Astrakhan....Katharina ....MarlboroughPantaloon Victoria .Devonshire

Viborg ....Poltava ....Prince Eugene .

St. Michael

Pearl ....

Britannia ....Randolph ....Ormonde ....Arundel ....L’EsperanceWachtmeister .

Amsterdam GalleyCrown de Li eft .

Cruiser ....Samson ....Stora Phœnix .

And several others of less

No. of Guns. 90 Nz

. 90 Nz

. 90

. 90

. 90

. 90

. 80

. 70 X

. 70 X

• 70. 64

. 64 x l "Pis supposed these

. 64 x j go no more to sea.

. 64. 64. 64. 64. 64 Nz

. 60

. 60 x

• 54

• 54

• 5°

- 5°

- 50 x

• 5°

- 5° x

. 48 x

- 44

• 44 x

• 3 6

• 36

• 36

• 32

• 3°