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ed it, elude all discovery, and he entrenched in 
the Amatolas, before it was even known to be 
their intention to leave their present locations. 
Hence, the only secure mode of preventing 
these recurring inroads, is by filling up unoc- 
cupied ground with industrious immigrants. 
These, by agriculture, felling wood, and other 
occupations, would never want means of sup- 
port, nay, even of affluence, for themselves and 
their families, if they were only once located 
there; and their presence, on their own farms , 
would do more, as burgher militia-men, for the 
defence of the Colony, than the vast number of 
regular troops, employed in the late war. 
Together with this, the abolition of the illicit 
sale of gunpowder to the natives, in the Colony, 
is most important. The present order for re- 
stricting its sale, has done much towards stop- 
ping this iniquitous practice; but it has not done 
all, nor nearly so. On the contrary, we know 
one honorable, upright man, a merchant on the 
frontier; who, seeing the likely means there were 
for evading this ordinance, and unable to detect 
or stop it, (even although it was suspected,) pro- 
hibited it altogether as an article of sale in his 
stores ; thus proving the yet existing abuse of 
the ordinance. Hence, to effectually put an end 
to this fatal mal-practice, the sale of gunpowder 
should be a Government monoply. It should 
