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This good account which they say the Native gave them of the Place they were in search of, alludes to a report which some as Artfull Villain in the Colony had propogated amongst the Irish Convicts lately arrived, "that there was a Colony of White People at No very great distance in the Back Country 150 or 200 miles where there was abundance of every sort of Provisions without the necessity of so much labor - The Ignorance of those Irishmen induc'd several to make an attempt to reach this Paradice the Consequence was that they Perishd in the Woods,not being capable of finding their way back - This Circumstance was fully related by me in a letter to the D of [indeciperable].
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