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324 knew that he had been the tranſlator of the ſpeech. I wrote to him immediately. He, in anſwer, declares to me, that he was the very perſon ſent by lord Dunmore to the Indian town; that, after he had delivered his meſſage there, Logan took him out to a neighboring wood; ſat down with him, and rehearſing, with tears, the cataſtrophe of his family, gave him that ſpeech for lord Dunmore; that he carried it to Lord Dunmore; tranſlated it for him; has turned to it in the Encyclopedia, as taken from the Notes on Virginia, and finds that it was his tranſlation I had uſed, with only two or three verbal variations of no importance. Theſe, I ſuppoſe, had ariſen in the courſe of ſucceſſive copies. I cite general Gibſon's letter by memory, not having it with me; but I am ſure I cite it ſubſtantially right. It eſtabliſhes unqueſtionably, that the ſpeech of Logan is genuine; and that being eſtabliſhed, it is Logan himſelf who is author of all the important facts. “Colonel Creſap,” ſays he, “in cold blood, and unprovoked murdered all the relations of Logan, not ſparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature.” The perſon and the fact in all its material circumſtances are here given by Logan himſelf. General Gibſon, indeed, ſays, that the title was miſtaken; that Creſap was a captain, and not a colonel.—This was Logan's miſtake. He alſo obſerves, that it was on the Ohio, and not on the Kanhaway itſelf, that his family was killed. This is an error which has crept into the traditionary account; but ſurely of little moment in the moral view of the ſubject.