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the most part broken in pieces ; but we find them 

 of a different sort, in comparison of those the In- 

 dians use at this day, who have had no other ever 

 since the English discovered America. The bow- 

 els of the earth cannot have altered them, since 

 they are thicker, of another shape and composi- 

 tion, and nearly approach to the urns of the an- 

 cient Romans. 



Again, the peaches, which are the only tame 

 fruit, or what is foreign, that these people enjoy, 

 which is an eastern product, and will keep and re* 

 tain its vegetative and growing faculty the long- 

 est of anything of that nature, that I know of. 

 The stone, as I elsewhere have remarked, is thick- 

 er than any other sort of the peaches in Europe, 

 or of the European sort, now growing in America, 

 and is observed to grow, if planted, after it has 

 been for several years laid by ; and it seems very 

 probable that these people might come from some 

 eastern countr}'- ; for when you ask them whence 

 their forefathers came, that first inhabited the 

 country, they will point to the westward, and say, 

 w^here the sun sleeps our forefathers came thence, 

 which, at that distance, may be reckoned amongst 

 the eastern parts of the world. And, to this day, 

 they are a shifting, wandering people ; for I know* 

 some Indian nations that have changed their set- 

 ilemcnts many hundred miles, sometimes no less 

 thiin a thousand, as is proved by the Savanna In- 

 dians, who formerly lived on the banks of the 

 Messiasippi, and removed thence to tlie head of 



