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The Substance of a Council Held at Lancaster - 9

try People to pay the P—r's Taxes; that he lived close by one of the P—s Manors, as fine Land as any in the Province;—that it was rated no higher than some barren stony Hills in his Possession, not worth Six-pence an Acre;—that he knew these Manors had serv'd upon the Frontiers, as so many lurking Places for the sculking Indiansto murder them;—that had they been settled, they cou'd have made a better Defence against the Inroads of the Savages; but if they are kept unimprov'd, all the Laws or Treaties in the World will never protect the back Inhabitants, nor give them one Hour's Security from those Barbarians, who have always a safe Retreat in these Wildernesses interspers'd among the People, and kept to all Appearance for that Use. The Man was going on with Abundance of such Reasoning, but I stopp'd him short, and told him he knew nothing of the Matter, upon which he went away in a Passion. I confess his Arguments thunderstruck me so at that time, that I did not know how to answer him otherwise.

Mr. Moderator Speaks,

Brother,

Your Conversation with the Dutchman brings to my Mind some Discourse I had the other Day 

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