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except in the most moderate weather, and the smaller, particularly in the lowestclasses, absolutely dangerous, except in the most tranquil seasons. These prin-ciples, and the remedies to their inconveniences, will be hereafter explainedwith more propriety than in this place. Suffice it for the present, that a fact isrepeated, universally known as it may be to the whole world, that Britain, inferioras the qualities of her ships might be, effected the ruin of the Spanish navy, to-gether with that of France, which, ere the conclusion of this too long subsistingdispute, most inconsiderately attempted to support the distracted cause of -theformer.

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