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…showed last 75 words of 307 total…into Portsmouth with good health and high spirits. The troops behaved with firmness, perserverance, and a spirit that gave great honor to the veterans.They were very deficient in pilots for the rivers and owe their success in getting up with so much expedition in great measure to the industry, attention and knowledge of Captain William Goodriche. Cap. Goodriche was the only pilot they could depend upon and took unwearied pains by day and night.