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John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

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to Individuals, and their Offsp Offspring, the Fruits of their Industry: for whilst Improve-ments remain in the present precarious State, the reflecting Mind must inevitably feel a Strong blunt to the Stimulus of Action. 12th. This Morning our Indian Host, came in and told us his Horse was dead, he had been ailing about three weeks; and that this was the eleventh Horse which he had lost within five years: this Accorded with an Account we had before received of the Mortality of Horses in this Country. About eight o’clock clock Cap. Hendricks