too Septmbt^ 174^^ 



beer) 2X.^lS[e^Xorkt and bM, found ^iVj^n^ 

 rable old American favage an^ppgft feveral 

 others in an inn. This old map began to .talk 

 with Sleidorn as fppn as the liqjapi: \yas.giqtf: 

 ting the better of his head, and boal^dthat 

 he could write and. read in JS«^/^. Sleid^rr{ 

 t.herefore defired leave to aik a queftipn^ 

 which the old, man readily granted;. Sleidorn 

 then afked him, whether he. knew, s^ho 

 was firft circunjcifed ? and the old ii^^n im- 

 mediately anfwered. Father Abraham^ h\x% 

 at the fame tjme afked leave to prpppfp a 

 queftion in his turn, which Sleidorn^ gr^llr. 

 ed ; the old man then faid, wh,o was. the 

 firA quaker? Sleidorn faid it was uncer,tainy 

 that fo^le took one.perfon for it, and fopi?; 

 another ; but the cunning old. fellow 1914 

 hirn, you are miftaken, fir ; M^rdecfli, wa^ 

 the firft quaker, for he would not take, off 

 his hat to Haman. Many of thp favages, 

 who are yet heathens, are faid, to havQ 

 fome obfcure notion of the deluge, ^ut I 

 am convinced from my own ej^perienc^, 

 that they are not at all acquainted with it. 



I MET with people here vi'ho maintained 

 that giants had formerly lived in thefe pajts, 

 and the following particulars confirmed them 

 in this opiniofi. A few years ago fomcj 

 people digging in the ground, met witji a 

 g|rave which contained human bones of an^ 



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