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tached himfelf to the means of gratifying me 5 

 that I was compelled peremptorily to arreft the 

 liberal hand with which he would have be- 

 flowed multiplied marks of his friendfliip — to 

 the injury, and almoft the extinftion of his 

 own collection. At firft I had freely expref- 

 fed my admiration of fuch things as were cal- 

 culated to call it forth, but I foon difcovered, 

 that to admire was to tax his generofity ; for 

 if he only heard me breathe approval, or but 

 faw, by my eye, that a fpecimen pleafed me, it 

 was inftantly mine e He gave me famples of 

 various gums, nuts, and woods, employed in 

 medicine by the Indians, alfo cryftals, bows 

 and arrows, Indian paddles, mufical inftru- 

 ments, inftruments of war, implements of 

 houfehold furniture, ufed by the Bucks, and a 

 variety of other curiolities : indeed, could I have 

 perfuaded myfelf to have taken all he offered 

 me, I might have fitted up a fmali mufeum ; but 

 I could not reconcile the idea of trefpaffing up- 

 on fuch liberality, and therefore pofitively re- 

 fufed many fpecimens of which I obferved 

 that he had no duplicates, and which 1 felt it 

 poflible he might afterwards lament. He was 

 equally liberal in all his attentions, and feem-» 



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