Identifier: columbianmagazin21788phil (find matches)
Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1788 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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i An Indian Tradition. 579 Ted men*, the be ft of men, to en- ground nut? and every root mall re-joy it. Then with five handfuls of frefti you : Onond igoes-, I have madered feeds, like the eggs erf flics, you wife, juft and eloquent; fquafh-tfid he (trow the fertile fields of es and grapes have I given you to^Onondaga. Little worms came out eat, and tobacco to fmoak in coun-cf the feeds, and penetrated the cil. The beads, birds and fiftiesearth, where the fpirits who had have I given to you all in common,never yet feen the light entered in- As I have loved and taken care ofto and united with them. Manit- you all, fo do you love and taveta watered the earth with his rain, care of one another. Communi-the fun warmed it, the worms with cate freely to each other the gKd:the fpirits in them grew, putting things I have given yon, and iearafoith little arms and legs, and mo- to imitate each others virtue tved the light earth that covered have made you the beft people inthem. After nine moon

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