Further Particulars relative to Welfh Indians. 
manner, to return you fincere thanks, 
and to exprefs a heartfelt gratitude for 
the benefits which you have conferred 
on me and my fchool-fellows. Much in- 
‘deed are we poor children indebted to 
you. Born of parents, whowere unable 
to procure for us aneducation, we muft 
have been left unprovided with the know- 
ledge requifite tor difeharging properly 
the ordinary duties of life ; "unfit for 
going through the employments of honeft 
induttry, and almoft totally unacquaint- 
ed with the maxims of that divine wif- 
dom, which religion unfolds and incul- 
cates. We fhould have been unable to 
govern our pafhions; ignoraut of our du- 
ties to our God, and to our tellow-crea- 
tures; without a guide to conduét us in 
the way of truth and virtue; without 
the means of fanctifying and {faving our 
immortal fouls: fuch had been our me- 
lancholy fituation, expofed to every 
danger, furrounded by every mifery, had 
not you ftretched out your friendly hand, 
and imparted to us thofe aids and com- 
forts, which our own parents, though 
they wifhed it in all the fondnefs of af- 
fe€tion, alas! were not able to beftow. --- 
Jt ought to be, and it fhould be, the 
conftant object of our future days, to 
correipond with your gracious intentions, 
by walking fteadily on in the vimuous 
path which you have opened before us ; 
giving glory to Godin our lives, making 
ourfelves ufeful to fociety, and fhewing 
forth to the world the benefits that are 
derived to it from this charitable inftitu- 
tion. WILLIAM LOCKER. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OU were pleafed to infert in the 
Magazine for laft month, an account 
of the return of JoHN Evans to St. 
Lou's, on the Mifliflippi, after an unfuc- 
cefsful attempt to find out the Wel/h In- 
dians, It is not explained therein from 
what cause he was compelled to return 
back, after having proceeded up the Mif- 
fouri eighteen hundred miles, a circum- 
ftance which renders the matter yery am- 
biguous ; efpecially fo, ashe was directed 
to look for the people in qucition about 
the fources of that river. 
In order to do away the impreflion, 
which the failure of Evans’s expedition 
may produce, I beg leave to inform you, 
that I have, with the affitance of a fiend, 
made a collection of about: eighty di f- 
ferent notices of the exiftence of fucha 
tribe in thedituation above mentioned, and 
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feveral are particular in marking the time 
of the voyage down the ftream into*the: 
Miffifippi to be full three months, which 
exceeds the {pace it took Evans by about 
from 16 to 20 days. 
The following communication refpeét« 
ing the fame fubject, came to hand a few 
days ago, being an extract of a lexters: 
written laft April, to the late Dr. Jones. 
of Hammerfmith, by his brother, Mr. 
BENJAMIN Jones, the proprietor of 
{ome iron works on the Monangahela ri- 
ver, near Pittfburg, which runs 5 thus: 3 
«© One of our neighbours, who bought 
wares of us laft fall, went down the Ohio; 
and then 1 Up the Miflisfippi, within. fixty 
miles of the confluence of the Miftour!, 
to a town called Mazeres. He being one 
day in aitore, law two Indians coming in; 
who began to talk to the ftore- _keepet im 
fome unknown language. The ftore- 
keeper fent for all the interpreters about 
the neighbouring towns’ and forts, “but 
none of thera underftood their lancuage: 
at laft a pry who fpoke Welfh, ‘came 
in, and obferving the two Indians point- 
ing tn fome goods in the ftore, and’ talking 
together, obferved that they talked 
Welfh. He immediately accofted them 
in that language, and the refult was, that 
they u nderftocd each’ other exceedingly 
well. a were very neatly drefled in 
buck-fkin from head to foot, but hadne 
fhirts. They had brought fome- white 
bear-fkins, drefled ina very curious man- 
ner with the hair on. He’ underftood 
that they lived a great way up the Mif- 
fourt, and had been at leaft three months 
on their journey, before they reached the 
place they were then in. ‘Thefe are all 
the particulars I’could learnof him, He 
is now gone down again, and promifed to 
make amore particular inquiry. He faid 
they were copper-colouréd, like other In- 
dians, and had very black hair, and no 
beard, except alittle on the chin, There 
isnodoubt at all but the nation of Welfh 
Indians lives near the fource of the Mif- 
{ouri, perhaps two thoufand miles from 
its mouth: it likewiflefeems probable that 
tholfe regions are pretty cold, ‘as they 
abound with white bears, whith ‘are -ail 
perfectly black, at leaft‘on the ‘fouth fide 
of the lakes, and about the Allegany 
mount ains. Tremain, Sir, your's, &c. 
April 6, 1798. MEIRION. 
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To the Editor of the Monikly Magazine, 
SIR, 
P | YAXATION, which, under the a 
miniftration of Mr. Pirr, has 
fearched cuteyeryanedium through whic 
Soph yee tn 
