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6658. PEYROUSE EXPEDITION, Objects of.—[further continued].

The Gazette of France announces the arrival of Peyrouse at Brazil,
that he was to touch at Otaheite, and proceed to
California, and still further northwardly. * * * The presumption is, that they will make an establishment
of some sort, on the northwest coast
of America.—
To John Jay. Washington ed. i, 602.
(P. 1786)