. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania. so a great Indian councilat Pennsbury, to take leave of him, to renew covenants, dtr. Mrs. Mary Smiths MS. account of the first settlement at Burling-ton, (herself an eye witness,) thus speaks of the Indians there in1678, saying— The Indians, very numerous and very civil, broughtthem corn, venison, &c., and bargained also for their land. It wassaid that an old Indian king spoke
. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania. so a great Indian councilat Pennsbury, to take leave of him, to renew covenants, dtr. Mrs. Mary Smiths MS. account of the first settlement at Burling-ton, (herself an eye witness,) thus speaks of the Indians there in1678, saying— The Indians, very numerous and very civil, broughtthem corn, venison, &c., and bargained also for their land. It wassaid that an old Indian king spoke prophetically before his death,and said the English should increase and the Indians should de-crease ! Jacob Taylors Almanac of 1743 relates, that An Indian of theprovince, looking at the great comet of 1680, and being asked whathe thought was the meaning of that prodigious appearance, answered— It sig?, we Indians shall fnelt away, and this country beinhabited by another sort of people. This prediction the Indian • It is scarcely possible to read these coinciclences of opinion with Penns, which precede it, without thinking of Dr. Boudinets Star in the West, and his efforts to provfthem INDIAN TEEATY.—Page 156. Itidiatis. I bl delivered very grave and positive to a Dutchman of good reputationnear Chester, who told it to one, now living, of full veracity. 1 have compiled from the work of the Swedish traveller, ProfessoiKalm, his notices of our Indians preceding the year 1748, to wit: • Of their Food and Mode of Living.—Maize, (Indian corn,)Bome kinds of beans and melons, made up the sum of the Indiansgardening. Their chief support arose from hunting and these, the oldest Swedes related that the Indians weie accus-tomed to get nourishment from the following wild planis, to wit; Hopniss, so called by the Indians, and also by the Swedes, (theGlycine apios of Liimaius,) they found in the meadows, ihe rootsresembled potatoes, and were eaten
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