100 Darlington’s Memorials 
“From.one melancholy story we come to another ;—the loss of so 
many fine plants, which affects me more than the loss of Pitt. 
“Tt is a fair probation, how far the principles of vegetation may be 
maintained when removed from a warmer latitude toa colder. Art 
will assist nature. There are many fine plants that grow on this side 
the Tropics, if we will bestow a south wall on them, will thrive and 
flower well in our northern climate. 
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“T cannot advise, for 1 am fearful thy grand expedition to the lakes 
will be too much to undertake without suitable companions, for acci- 
dents may happen in so long a journey. But if it was thy resolution, 
my advice will come too late. So, my dear John, farewell. 
P. Cottinson.”—pp. 235, 236, 
There are three letters from Bartram, written in the autumn of 
1763, after his visit to Carolina and Georgia, expressing a strong 
desire to explore the country of Canada and Louisiana for natural 
productions, adding, ‘But this would alarm the Indians to the 
highest degree. All the discoverers would be exposed to the 
treaty will make discovery safe.”—p. 224. And again—‘‘ The 
most probable and only method to establish a lasting peace with 
the barbarous Indians is to bang them stoutly, and make them 
sensible that we are men, whom they for many years despised for 
women. Until then it is only throwing away blood and treasure 
to make peace with them.”—p. 255. And in the same strain is 
the next letter. 
“ November 11th, 1763. 
“Dear worthy Perer:—I have received my dear friend’s letter of 
August 23d, 1763. 
‘“*] think most of our people here look upon all our boasted acquisi- 
tions in North America to be titular, and that only of short duration, as 
the French still claim all one side of the Mississippi, and part of our 
side. They will draw the chief of their fur trade near them, and will 
always be setting the Indians against us, suppose we do keep possession 
of the lakes. But unless we bang the Indians stoutly, and make them 
fear us, they will never love us, nor keep peace long with us. They . 
are now got so cunning, they will not sell their land, and stand so to 
their bargain as to let the people live quietly upon it. But when they 
want goods, it is but rob the traders, steal horses, plunder and insult 
the back inhabitants, and instead of us calling them to account for 
their mischief, we sue to them for peace, and give them great presents 
to kill no more white people for three or four years. By such pro- 
ceedings, they have us in the greatest contempt, believing they may do 
us all the mischief they please, and we are ready at any time to buy @ 
peace with them for a few years, under great insults. , < 
“The variety of plants and flowers in our southwestern continent, is 
yond expression. Is it not, dear Peter, the very palace garden of 
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