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than any Land can be, which lies at a Distance from
the Ohio. Lest my former letter should miscarry I now
send you a List of all our Lands with the Locations, that
Caveats may be entered for the Reason w^ch you are
acquainted w^th in order to try the legality of the Claims.
I sent Directions to the attorney by a former Opportunity ^to take this step but
the Letter may miscarry, you therefore will, no doubt, im-
-mediately apply to him. It appears to me that the surveyor
cannot receive an Entry for Land before located [page damaged- with?]
him, without the Consent of the prior Claimant, and as I have
a Prospect of locating our other Treasury warrants to great
advantage, I incline at present to prefer the former mea-
-sure; especially as warrants hereafter to be purchased
will be worth less than those I now have: But this
is a matter of so much consequence that I cannot
determine how I shall act on the first Day of May.
There is no such Thing as Friendship existing in this
Part of the world; nor is there one Person to be trusted,
unless he is immediately ^connected with the other in Interest; that
being so powerful as to reconcile the honest man to the
villain, and serve as a Cement to their Friendship: You
would be surprised to see with what a Jealous Eye we
view one another, every Man looking upon his
neighbour as his Enemy & endeavouring to counteract
his Designs and even amongst those between whom
an intimate Friendship heretofore subsisted, there is the
greatest Jealousy. - There is in this Part of the world the
greatest scarcity of Provisions, but at the Falls ^about 70 m. off such
Quantities have come down, the Prices are lower than
I presume they are with you: Corn plenty at 40 Dollars
p^r bushel, flour at [pound symbol]80 p b^l salt [pound symbol]100 p^r Bushel
^whiskey at [pound symbol]30 p^r Gallⁿ Horses here are not half as high as with you, but cattles
from the great Distruction amongst them last winter
are very scarce & of course very dear. M^r And^w Beall
has delivered me your Instructions respecting the giving
him a Credit, but I find he will interfere with us
in our Purchases of the Escheated Lands: I therefore
wish for your Directions upon that Head. He seems