The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 14J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1791 |
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... India by the Romans , 3 15 Page Account of the present State of the Fur Trade of Hudson's- Bay , On the Impoffibility of render- ing the French Conftitution fimilar to the British , 40 9 Memoirs of the Life of Dr Ro- 42 45 57 53 20 bert ...
... India by the Romans , 3 15 Page Account of the present State of the Fur Trade of Hudson's- Bay , On the Impoffibility of render- ing the French Conftitution fimilar to the British , 40 9 Memoirs of the Life of Dr Ro- 42 45 57 53 20 bert ...
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... Indian Game to me , which afterwards ap- peared to be a War Captain belonging to the Sachem of the Doegs , ( whofe original I find muft needs be from the . old Britons ) and cook me up by the mid tle , and told me in the British tongue ...
... Indian Game to me , which afterwards ap- peared to be a War Captain belonging to the Sachem of the Doegs , ( whofe original I find muft needs be from the . old Britons ) and cook me up by the mid tle , and told me in the British tongue ...
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... Indian lan- guage , which his friend faid was per- fe & Welth . " My brother , Mr Lloyd adds , having heard this , ( Mr Jones's adventures ) and meeting with this Jones at New York , defired him to write it , with his own hand , in his ...
... Indian lan- guage , which his friend faid was per- fe & Welth . " My brother , Mr Lloyd adds , having heard this , ( Mr Jones's adventures ) and meeting with this Jones at New York , defired him to write it , with his own hand , in his ...
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... Indian town a very confiderable diftance from New Orleans , whofe inhabitants were of different complexions ; not fo tawny as thofe of the other Indians , and who fpoke Welth . He faid he faw a book among them , which he fuppofed was ...
... Indian town a very confiderable diftance from New Orleans , whofe inhabitants were of different complexions ; not fo tawny as thofe of the other Indians , and who fpoke Welth . He faid he faw a book among them , which he fuppofed was ...
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... Indian , named Jack , after the English whofe language they could understand ; and that by him they were conducted to the Delaware towns , where they tarried one year ; and returned ; that the French fent a white man with them properly ...
... Indian , named Jack , after the English whofe language they could understand ; and that by him they were conducted to the Delaware towns , where they tarried one year ; and returned ; that the French fent a white man with them properly ...
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