2ift- It leans very pfo- 



babk, from die following obfcrvitk>as, that 

 loBgJjefore die arrival of the Swofc, there 

 have been E^rip&ms in this province ; 2nd, 

 in the fetiuel, we ihaU give nxxe confinna- 

 tk>m of this opinion. The une ok! Amt/ 

 Aiw*, whom I hare already mentioned be- 

 fore, told me repeatedly, that on die arriral 

 of theAwofc in die Lift century, and 00 dbdr 

 makkig a fetdanent, called HtljtKgbvg, on 

 the hanks of the Delaware, ibmcwhat bekar 

 the phce where z&ar is now fitoatcd^ diey 

 found, at the depth of twenty feet, kxae 

 wdls, iaclofcd widi w dk. TTiis coold not 

 be a wrk of die native Americans* cc Ji- 

 <aj, as bricks were eatirdy unknown to 

 them when the Eurvfc*** firft 



at the end of die fifteenth cenfmy; and 

 they ffifl lefe knew how to make eic cf 

 than. The wdls were, at that time, oa 

 the fend; bat in loch a place, en toe hanks 

 of the Dilewere, as is famctimes under 

 water, and kxnetimes dry. But finer, the 

 ground has been fi> waihed away, that the 

 wells are entirely ccveicd by the river, and 

 die wafer is fildom low enough to fliew die 

 wdk. As the SmeJetilia wards made new 

 wdls for themilvcs, at feme difianoe firom 

 the former, tfaqr discovered, in the ground, 

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