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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
�Josh Preble Aug 16 1820 When your excellency honored us with a call at this pot, you was pleased to express much interest in the defense of the port of your state _ The enclosed statement of the almost defenseless situation of Portland harbor may not be unacceptable, from your Excellancy's most respectful ? ? A J Brooks
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