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from them, making them drunk, and cheating them of their 

 property. As their merciless, barbarous methods of revenge 

 and resentment are so well known, our people should be more 

 careful how they provoke them. Let a person of power come 

 and take five or ten acres of my friend John's land from him, 

 and give him half price, or no price for it, how easy and 

 resigned he would be, and submit to such usage ! But if an 

 Indian resents it in this way, instead of doing him justice, and 

 making peace with him, nothing but fire and faggot will do with 

 my friend John ! He does not search into the bottom of these 

 insurrections. They are smothered up, because we are the 

 aggressors. But see my two proposals, in the October Gentle- 

 man's Magazine, for a peace with the Indians. 



***** 



" What a glorious scene is opened in that rich country about 

 Pensacola if that despised country is worthy thy visitation. 

 But because Pitt did not get it, thou canst not venture there on 

 any pretence ! All beyond the Carolinas is forbidden ground. 

 They are none of thy darling Pitt's acquisitions ! 



***** 



" I hope what I have writ will be read with candour. Our 

 long friendship will allow us to rally one another, and crack 

 a joke without offence, as none was intended by thy sincere 

 friend, 



P. COLLINSON. 



" London, January 1, 1763-4. 



" I am very thankful to the great Author of my being that I 

 enter the new year in perfect good health and spirits. I 

 heartily wish the like comfortable situation may attend my dear 

 friend and his family. 



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" Thy quick discernment of plants is a knack peculiar to 

 thyself, and is attained by the long exercise of thy faculties in 

 that amusement, and is like the hare finders with us. Some 

 can't discover them if close under their feet ; others see them at 

 a great distance. 



" Indeed, my dear John, I must congratulate you on that 



