i oo September 1748. 



been at New Tork, and had found a vene- 

 rable old American favage among ft fever al 

 others in an inn. This old man began to talk 

 with Sleidorn as foon as the liquor was get- 

 ting the better of his head, and boafted that 

 he could write and read in Engli/h. Sleidorn 

 therefore defired leave to afk a queftion, 

 which the old man readily granted. Sleidorn 

 then alked him, whether he knew who 

 was firft circumcifed ? and the old man im- 

 mediately anfwered, Father Abraham ; but 

 at the fame time afked leave to propofe a 

 queftion in his turn, which Sleidorn grant- 

 ed ; the old man then faid, who was the 

 firft quaker ? Sleidorn faid it was uncertain, 

 that fome took one perfon for it, and fome 

 another ; but the cunning old fellow told 

 him, you are miftaken, lir ; Mordecai was 

 the firft quaker, for he would not take off 

 his hat to Hamdn. Many of the favages, 

 who are yet heathens, are faid to have 

 fome obfcure notion of the deluge. But I 

 am convinced from my own experience, 

 that they are not at all acquainted with it. 



I met with people here who maintained 

 that giants had formerly lived in thefe parts, 

 and the following particulars confirmed them 

 in this opinion. A few years ago fome 

 people digging in the ground, met with a 

 grave which contained human bones of an 



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