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17. The Cherokees

settled in towns over this territory, before a white man ever appeared [and?] then shows and when he did appear and made a discovery, he only discovered the Cherokees in peaceable possession of a country, given them from the Almighty. "There is an other question [to support] to which the discovery of at the new world has given rise. Its asked if a nation may lawfully take the possession of a part of avast country i which there are none found but erratic nations incapable by the smallness of their numbers to people the whole?" view [Dattel?] p.158 Our author is of the opinion that such wandering tribes were never designed by nature to exclude other nations from a participation of the benefits of a vase event of country, appropriated by the creator for the substance of the human species. He admires the New England puritans who notwithstanding there being furnished with a Charter from their sovereign, purchased of the