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It must be pretty well ascertained what number of small Vessels are in each Port.
"I will suppose that 40,000 men are destined for this attack, or rather surprise, of London; 20,000 will land on the west side of Dover, sixty or seventy miles from London, and the same number on the east side: they are too knowing to let us have but one point of alarm for London.

Supposing 200 craft, or 250, collected at Boulogne &c, they are supposed equal to carry 20,000 men.

In very calm weather, they might row over, supposing no impediment, in twelve hours; at the same instant, by telegraph, the same number of troops would be rowed out of Dunkirk, Ostend, &c.

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