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good bricks ; and they have often got thera 

 out of the ground by ploughing. 



From thefe marks, it feems, we may con- 

 clude, that in times of yore, either Eu- 

 ropeans or other people of the then civilized 

 parts of the world, have been carried hither 

 by riorms, or other accidents, fettled here, 

 on the banks of the river, burnt bricks, and 

 made a colony here ; but that they after- 

 wards mixed with the Indians, or were kill- 

 ed by them. They may gradually, by con- 

 verfing with the Indians, have learnt their 

 manners, and turn of thinking. The Swedes 

 themfelves are accufed, that they were al- 

 ready half Indians, when the Englijh ar- 

 rived in the year 1682. And we frill fee, 

 that the French, Englijh, Germans, Dutch, 

 and other Europeans, who have lived for fe- 

 veral years together in diftant provinces, 

 near and among the Indians, grow fo like 

 them, in their behaviour and thoughts, that 

 they can only be diftinguimed by the dif- 

 ference of their colour. But hiftory, together 

 with the tradition among the Indians, allures 

 us, that the above-mentioned wells and 

 bricks cannot have been made at the time 

 of Columbus 's expedition, nor foon after ; as 

 the traditions of the Indians fay, that thofe 

 wells were made long before that epocha. 

 This account of the wells, which had been 



inclofed 



