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<Representation to the Lords Justices, inclosing Extract of a Letter from Arthur Dobbs Govr. Genl. of No. Carolina, relative to his intention of building a Fort at Cape Lookout.>
Whitehall
July 29. 1755.
To their Excellencies the Lords Justices.
May it please Your Excellencies,
| Bundle C. 83. | Having lately received a Letter from Arthur Dobbs Esqr., Governor of His Majesty's Province of North Carolina, dated the 19th. of May 1755, in which he gives a particular Account of a fine Harbour, which he has lately surveyed at Cape Lookout within the said Province, and proposes the building a strong Fort there as a Matter of the greatest Consequence to the Trade and Navigation of Great Britain, as well as of the Southern Colonies on that Continent; We think it Our Duty humbly to lay before Your Excellencies the annexed Extract of the said Letter for Your Excellencies Directions thereupon. |
Which is most humbly submitted.
