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of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall. 101 
old Madam Flora? Oh! if I could but spend six months on the Ohio, 
Mississippi, and Florida, in health, I believe I could find more curiosi- 
lies than the English, French and Spaniards have done in six score of 
years. But the Indians, instigated by the French, will not let us look 
at so much as a plant, or tree, in this great British empire.”—p. 256. 
To all this the benevolent Collinson replies in a more Qua- 
kerly way. 
“Ridgeway House, December 6, 1763. 
ing, the fire of friendship is blazing—warms my imagination with re- 
flecting on the variety of incidents that hath attended our long and 
agreeable correspondence. . g “ " 
‘“‘My dear John, thou does not consider the law of right, and doing 
to others as we would be done unto. 
‘““ We, every manner of way, trick, cheat, and abuse these Indians 
with impunity. They were notoriously jockeyed and cheated out of 
their land in your province, by a man’s walking a track of ground in 
one day, that was to be purchased of them 
“Your Governor promised the Indians if they would not join the 
“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 tamely submit to such usage ! 
But if an Indian resents it in his way, instead of doing him justice, 
and making peace with him, nothing but fire and faggot will do wit 
my friend John! He does not search into the bottom of these insur- 
rections. They are smothered up, because we are the aggressors. 
ut see my two proposals, in the October Gentleman’s Magazine, for a 
Peace with the Indians. 
‘‘ My dear John, I am glad thou art so happily recovered. from that 
cruel complaint; and that our goo onel escaped those terrible fel- 
lows. I hope such prudent measures will be taken as will put a stop to 
their ravages, and establish a lasting peace. Be 
“The peace that thou art so merry with, in your mock mourning, is 
only glorious by comparison; I mean by comparing it with that peace 
you are! for ever grumbling, never pleased. I refer thee to the pre- 
liminary of Pitt’s peace, and Bute’s. Facts speak louder than fac- 
tion. We all know here what Pitt’s peace would have been, and what 
Bute’s is. * wi . . m . 
