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3991. INTEMPERANCE, Havoc by.—

Spirituous liquors, the small pox, war, and an
abridgment of territory to a people who


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lived principally on the spontaneous productions
of nature, committed terrible havoc
among the Virginia Indians.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 339. Ford ed., iii, 196.
(1782)