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Sir Bolus, or Sir Boriase Warren, whose exploits in the Chesapeake are, as they say of quack medicines, “too well known to need any praise from us.” Sir Bolus, like the American Eagle, carries in one hand a bundle of arrows, and in the other an olive branch, to indicate that he brings the choice of peace or war. As the sage Gargantua, according to Monsieur Rabelais, was once in a situation in which he did not know whether to laugh, or cry, and compromised matters by laughing with one side of his face, and crying with the other; so in like manner Sir Bolus, being divided as it were between peace and war, one day burns a town, and the next, professes a violent inclination to be friends with America.