384 December 1748. 



their windows they had feen every thing 

 very plainly on the other fide of the river, 

 fo that it appeared much nearer than ufual, 

 and that this commonly foreboded rain. 

 This prefage was likewife pretty exactly 

 fulfilled. 



The Indians before the arrival of the 

 Europeans, had no notion of the ufe of iron, 

 though that metal was abundant in their 

 country. However they knew in fome 

 meafure how to make ufe of copper. Some 

 Dutchmen who lived here, ftill preferved 

 the old account among them, that their 

 anceftors on their firft fettling in New York 

 had met with many of the Indians, who 

 had tobacco pipes of copper, and who made 

 them understand by figns, that they got 

 them in the neighbourhood : afterwards the 

 fine copper mine was difcovered, upon the 

 fecond river between 'Elizabeth- town and 

 New York. On digging in this mine, the 

 people met with holes worked in the moun- 

 tain, out of which fome copper had been 

 taken, and they found even fome tools, 

 which the Indians probably made ufe of, 

 when they endeavoured to get the metal for 

 their pipes. Such holes in the mountains 

 have likewife been found in fome parts of 

 Penfyhania, viz. below Newcafile towards 

 the fea fide, and always fome marks of a 



copper 



