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And one Thing with Relation to the taking of Cape-Breton, tho' it may seem trivial, yet I don't think to be altogether inconsiderable in the present Case; and that is, that hereby the antichristian Dominions are deprived of a very great Part of their Fish, which makes no small Part of the Food and Support of popish Countries; their Superstition forbidding them to eat any Flesh for near a third Part of the Year. This they were supplied with much more from Cape-Breton, than any Place in the World in the Possession of Papists. And the Contention of France with the Dutch, deprives 'em of most of their Supply of this Sort, which they had elsewhere. When the Prophet Isaiah foretells the depriving Egypt of it's Wealth and temporal Supplies, under the Figure of drying up their Rivers, this is particularly mentioned, that they should be deprived of their Fish. Isai. xix.4, &c. And the Egyptians will I give over into the Hand of a cruel Lord.—And the Waters shall ⟨p. 171⟩fail from the Sea, and the River shall be wasted and dried up; and they shall turn the Rivers far away, and the Brooks of Defence shall be emptied and dried up.—The Fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast Angle into the Brooks shall lament, and they that spread Nets upon the Waters shall languish. This is expressed in the Prophecies of drying up the Waters, i. e. the Supplies of Egypt; and this probably is implied in the Prophecies of drying up the Waters of that City that is spiritually called Egypt. And it may be noted, that this is not only a Supply that the Church of Antichrist has literally out of the Waters, but is that Part of their temporal Supply which is eminently the Supply and Food of their antichristian Superstition, or which their popish Religion makes necessary for them.

And one Thing with Relation to the taking of Cape-Breton, tho' it may seem trivial, yet I don't think to be altogether inconsiderable in the present Case; and that is, that hereby the antichristian Dominions are depriv'd of a very great Part of their Fish, which makes no small Part of the Food and Support of popish Countries; their Superstition forbidding them to eat any Flesh for near a third Part of the Year. This they were supplied with much more from Cape-Breton, than any Place in the World in the Possession of Papists. And the Contention of France with the Dutch, deprives 'em of most of their Supply of this Sort, which they had elsewhere. When the Prophet Isaiah foretells the depriving Egypt of it's Wealth and temporal Supplies, under the Figure of drying up their Rivers, this is particularly mention'd, that they should be deprived of their Fish.