its destruction as Sodom & Gomorrah"! It is true they are not _all_ so; no, I am told there are but few, & in charity I hope it is; otherwise what will be my fate seeing I am in a certain degree partaker with them! Surely the inha- bitants of such a land, at _best_, cannot look for more than mere _present enjoy- ment_. When I reflect seriously on _all_ these things as I sometimes do, revolv ving them in every different manner in my mind it is beyond the power of words to express my feelings. Poor unfortunate blind Creatures! That it is from _Blindness_ they commit these things. I am fully persuaded, because I am equally confi- dent that they do not attach that same degree of criminality to them we, _from the re- vealing of the Scriptures_ to us, do: some, they consider in the light of trifles; some natural; some weaknesses: but all tend to the gratification of most Bestial appetites, whatever may have been the original cause, _curiosity_, or otherwise. However, I received a piece of infor- mation in one of these, & _it_ was circumstantially detailed, that has cleared a point to me I could never solve: & Tho I enquired of both Wool & Bob, they were not wiser than my- self. Indeed, without the _trial_ or experiment, it seems impossible to say certainly where the cause lies: now I know it, if ever an opportunity offers, or that it pleases God I again revisit my own lands I shall be able to speak to a certainty. As I cannot write Latin, I shall say no more of _it_ at present.-- A few years back an indian at the next Post above _this_ died: he had been a long time sick, &