
Dr. Beddoes on the Nitrous Acid.—Welfh Indians. 
Mri Buair.. For the thips, by which 
they were brought, had not arrived. 
By thof ships Mr. ScorT fent me a 
copy, requefting I would reprint the 
letters, in any publication which I might 
be. preparing on the fubject of nitrous 
acid, But I have fince received from 
Mr. Scorr, inftrustions to fupprefs what 
he fays about the effect of bathing, as he is 
not fatished with his trials. This re- 
traétation, together with remarks on 
{ome material points; will appear in the 
colle&ion now in the prefs; for it 1s too 
late (in confequence of what has been 
publithed here) to fupprefs the remarks 
on the nitrous bath, as the author wifhed. 
I am afraid the collection of cafes will 
be a few weeks longer in appearing than 
I gave reafon to expect. A confiderable 
aumber of communications are printed. 
But ome, which were promifed two 
months ago, are not yet come to hand— 
and I could with to prefent the public 
with a refpeGtable body of facts. I find 
by my correfpondence in America, that 
they have been employing nitrous acid 
there—“* with various, but, for the moft 
part, with good fuccefs.°—1 hope we 
fhall, ere long, know how far this and 
the other fubltances newly brought into 
queftion, are ufeful—that we may ule 
them fo far, and no farther. Jt 
L.am, Sir, with good wifhes for th 
fuccefs of your exertions, yours, 
March 7, 1798. THoMas BEDDOEs. 

Tp the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, . 
PINE following is an extra&t of a let- 
a ter from my correfpondent at Phi- 
ladelphia, refpecting a late attempt to 
penetrate to the Wel/h Indians, da:ed the 
sth of December, 1797. : 
<* Twas in hopes to have had it in my 
power to communieate fomething con- 
cerning JOHN Evans. Dr. Jones, of 
Lower Dublin, has received a letter trom 
him a few days ago. I have fent two 
meflages for a copy of it, but it is not 
yet come to hand. I underfand that 
Ev ans has returned to Kentucky, with- 
out finding his brethren. I was appre- 
henfive of his mifcarriage; for Judge 
_-TuRNeER, on his arrival. in this city 
lat fpring, informed me that Mackay, 
the ating partner in the Miffouri Com- 
pany, had returned to St. Louis, finding 
the weftern Indians in a hoftile pofition. 
Nothing was then mentioned of Evans, 
farther than that the judge faid the com- 
mandant of St.Louis, in a letter to him, 
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complained that Mr. Evans would not _ 
comply with fome Spanifh etiquette previ- 
oully to his fetting out on his journey: in-_ 
deed, I had often heard from men of obfer- 
vation, that he had not a fufficient know- 
ledge of mankind to balance his enterprif- 
ing enthufiafm. ‘Thefe remarks I make 
without knowing the contents of his letter y 
a copy of which I fhall certainly fend you 
the firft opportunity, with fome turther 
comments upon the fubjeét.” ; 
Extra& of a fecond letter, dated the zoth 
On Weel nz9 77. « 
*¢ In my laft I promifed you a copy of 
Joun Evans’s letter; but the whole 
being rather'a crude compofition, and 
rather long, I fend you the fubftance of 
his report, which has been publithed in 
feveral of the. American papers’; and in 
making it known in Europe, you will 
oblige feveral of our friends. 
<¢ ‘The ideas, which I fuggefted in my 
laft letter, on the fubjeét of this miffion, 
I ftillretain, I was always doubtful of 
the exiftenee of Welch Indians; but, in 
my opinion, we are left in the dark as 
much as ever, 1n refpect to their exiftence 
or non-exiftence, “Thofe who have af- 
ferted that there are fuch a people may 
have equal credit, in the fcale of proba- 
bability, with thofe who only, by fuper- 
ficial refearch, declare they cannot find 
them. Evans's account is very lame, 
and to me appears doubtful. We may. 
know’ more about it hereafter; and 
fhould I hear any thing farther, I fhall not 
fail to communicate it. 
<¢ Afier enumerating his difficulties 
and fufferings on the Miffiippi, which 
have ‘been already publithed, Evan's 
gives a fhort account of his journey up 
the Miffouri. 
“< In Auguft, 1795, fays he, I ftarted 
from St. Louis, in company with James 
Mackay, commendant on the Mifl | 
fouri; and wintered, the fame year, with 
the Mehas nation, on the faid river. 
Whilft here, .I fpent twenty-five days 
with the Indians, on their’ hunting 
ground, and then returned to Poft Mahas, 
where I tarried two months. 
¢c In February, 1796, I recommenced 
my journey weitward, and, at the diftance 
ot 300 miles from. the Mahas,.was dilco- 
vered by fome hoftile Indians, called the 
Seaux. Beingobliged to retreat, Lagan 
returned to the Mahas ; but in June fol- 
lowing, undertook the fame route, and, in 
Augutt, arrived at the Mandans and Big~ 
Belly nation, 300 leagues from the Ma- 
has, and 609 leagues from.the confluence *; 
of the Miffouri with the Miflifippi. — 
Voz sé The 
