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entire good bricks ; and they have often got them 

 out of the ground by ploughing. 



FROM thefe marks, it feems, we may conclude, 

 that, in times of yore, either Europeans, or other 

 people of the then civilized parts of the world, 

 have been carried hither by ftorms, or other ac- 

 cidents, fettkd here, on the banks of the river, 

 burnt bricks, and made a colony here; but that 

 they afterwards mixed with the Indians, or were 

 killed by them. They may gradually, by con- 

 verling with the Indians, have learnt their man- 

 ners, and turn of thinking. The Swedes them- 

 felves are accufed, that they were already half 

 Indians, when the Englifb arrived in* the year 

 1682. And we Hill fee, that the French, Eng- 

 lijb, Germans, Dutch, and other Europeans, who 

 haye lived for feveral years together in diftant pro- 

 vinces, near and among the Indians, grow fo like 

 them, in their behaviour and thoughts, that they 

 can only be diftinguifhed by the difference of 

 their colour. But hiftory, together with the 

 tradition among the Indians, affures 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 with bricks,, and ef fuch bricks as 

 have been found in feveral places in the ground, 

 I have afterwards heard repeated by many other 

 old Swedes. 



Dec.ti.2d. AN old farmer foretold a change 

 of the weather, becauie the air was very warm 

 this day at noon, though the morning had been 



very 



