NORTH CAROLINA. 277 



AN ACCOUNT 



OF THE 



INDIANS OF N. CAROLINA. 



The Indians, which were the inhabitants of 

 America when the Spaniards and other Europeans 

 discovered the several parts of that country, are 

 the people which we reckon the natives thereof; 

 as indeed they were, when we first found out those 

 parts and appeared therein. Yet this has not 

 wrought in me a full satisfaction to allow these 

 people to have been the ancient dwellers of the 

 new world, or tract of land we call America. The 

 reasons that I have to think otherwise, are too 

 many to set down here ; but I shall give the reader 

 a few before I proceed, and some others he will 

 find scattered in my writings elsewhere. 



In Carolina- (the part I now treat of) are the 

 fairest marks of a deluge, that at some time has 

 probably made strange alterations as to the sta- 

 tion that country was then in, that ever I saw, or, 

 I think, read of, in any history. Amongst the 

 other subterraneous matters that have been dis- 



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