in a letter from England to Charles Thompson (1764), as quoted in The Wars of America: Or, A General History of All the Important Tragic Events that Have Occurred in the United States of North America, Since the Discovery of the Western Continent by Christopher Columbus (1839) by Benjamin Eggleston, p. 156
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