I do not doubt but that
there are many more in use; and I was even tempted to add a new one
my self under the Letter B, to wit, _Brutify'd_: But upon
Consideration, I fear'd being guilty of Injustice to the Brute
Creation, if I represented Drunkenness as a beastly Vice, since, 'tis
well-known, that the Brutes are in general a very sober sort of
People.
_The Pennsylvania Gazette_, January 13, 1736/7
_Captain Farra_
The same Day arrived Capt.Farra, who has long been given over
for lost. In his Voyage from Jamaica hither, he was cast away in
Palachee Bay within Cape Florida, among the Cannibal Indians, who
were extreamly kind and assisted in saving the Cargo, Rigging, &c.
And News of the Wreck coming to Augustine, the Spaniards sent
Periagua's and other small Vessels round to take in what was sav'd,
and bring it to that Port; where Capt. Farra hir'd a Rhode-Island
Sloop to bring it hither. Had this English Vessel been forc'd ashore
on the civil, polite, hospitable, christian, protestant Coast of
Great-Britain, Query, _Might they have expected kinder Treatment from
their own Countrymen?_
_The Pennsylvania Gazette_, June 2, 1737
_Upon the Talents Requisite in an Almanack-Writer_
_To the Author of the_ Pennsylvania Gazette.
_SIR,_
As I am a great Lover of all Works of Ingenuity, and the
Authors of them, so more especially am I a great Reader and Admirer
of those _Labours of the Learned_, called _ALMANACKS.
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