SUPPOSED WELCH INDIANS. ] g"7 



the SIfawnees nation, they had been abfent about two years Traditional ac- 

 and a half. Griffith Gippofed that when they travelled they ^f^$£ 

 went at the rate of about fifteen miles per day. fuppofed to have 



He Raid but a few months with the Indians after his return, ^^ aJed ^^ 

 as a favourable opportunity offered itfelf to him to reach his 

 friends in Virginia. He came with a hunting party of Indians 

 to the head- waters of Coal-river, which runs into New-river 

 not far above the falls. There he left the Shawnees and eafily 

 reached the fettlements on Roanoke. vwfr tyO 



Mr. Chjlds knew him before he was taken prifoner, and 

 favv him a few days after his return, when he narrated to him 

 the preceding circumftances. Griffith was univerfally re- 

 garded as a fteady honeft man, and a man of ilrid veracity » 

 Mr. Childs has always placed the utrooft confidence in his 

 account of himfelf and his travels, and has no more doubt 

 of the truth of his relation, than if he had feen the whole 

 bimfelf. Whether Griffith be If ill alive or not he does not 

 know. >,M#t 



Whether his ideas be correct or not, we (hall probably have 

 a better opportunity of judging on the return of Captains 

 Lewis and Clark ; who, though they may not penetrate as 

 far as Griffith alledged that he had done, will probably learn 

 enough of the country to enable us to determine whether the 

 account given by Griffith be fiction or truth. 

 I am, Sir, 



Your humble fervanf, 



HARRY TOULMIN. 

 Frankford, Dec. 12, 1S04-, 



Additional Obfervatiom and Conjectures by the Editor, 



THE ftory of a Welch colonization of America has excitetl 

 much curiofity, both in Europe and the United States : By 

 many it is believed, while by others it is thought unworthy of 

 any attention. By reafon of the prefent rapid progrefs of ieU 

 tlement in America, the time cannot be remote when the 

 truth or fallity of this ilory will be completely eftablifhed. 

 In the meanwhile I do not hefitate to conjecture, that no traces 

 -of the defcendants of the Welch prince mil ever be difcovered in 

 the iveftern parts of North America. 



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