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great draft of water cannot gett out but at spring tides--Boston is not so, and ships of any size can put to sea at all times when the wind serves; and I was full of apprehensions, that Vandreuil might have sailed between the New & full moon but they are now subsided, from an account I have lately received, from one of the persons, I have taken upon me to send to Boston (for I have employed two or three, in different ways, as certain intelligence is of the utmost importance in my situation, and I think a little expence in procuring it, should not be regarded) he writes from Providence in Rhode Island Government, and I expect him back here in a few days. I am with every true regard & esteem my dear General your most faithfull and affectionate humble servant Hood PS. Admiral Digby seemed dissatisfied at my not receiving a Mr. Waddington, but I really could not bring myself to do it, Captain Knight being very capable of giving instruction in the mathematics and I am sure His Royal Highness must receive it to more advantage from an Officer, as well as more pleasingly than from a person, who has
