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and orchards, that I am fpeaking of the 

 property of the Indians , to undeceive them, 

 I here give the following explication. The 

 country efpecially all along the coafts, in 

 the Englifo colonies, is inhabited by Euro- 

 peans, who in fome places are already fo 

 numerous, that few parts of Europe are 

 more populous. The Indians have fold the 

 country to the Europeans, and have retired 

 further up : in moft parts you may travel 

 twenty Swedijh miles, or about a hundred 

 and twenty Englijh miles, from the fea 

 more, before you reach the firfl habitations 

 of the Indians. And it is very poffible for 

 a perfon to have been at Philadelphia and 

 other towns on the fea more for half a year 

 together, without fo much as feeing an In- 

 dian. I intend in the fequel to give a more 

 circumflantial account of them, their reli- 

 gion, manners, oeconomy, and other par- 

 ticulars relating to them : at prefent I re- 

 turn to the fequel of my journal. 



About nine Englim miles from Trenton, 

 the ground began to change its colour > 

 hitherto it confifted of a considerable quan- 

 tity of hazel coloured clay, but at prefent 

 the earth was a reddifh brown, fo that it 

 fometimes had a purple colour, and fome- 

 times looked like logwood. This colour 

 came from a red limeftone which approach- 



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