Flats on each Side of the River,
which a few years ago were
occupied by the Indians, my
Mind was tendered in reflecting
on their Situation; how they
are tossed from place to place,
and deprived of their Lands,
almost as soon as their
fertility becomes known to
the white people; and it
settled in my Mind, that
it could hardly be the Will
of the great Founder of the
Universe, that this valu-
able Country should remain
unimproved; and that therefore,
the only Means, whereby the