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6509. PEACE, Pipe of.—

I have joined
with you sincerely in smoking the pipe of


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peace; it is a good old custom handed down
by your ancestors, and as such I respect and
join in it with reverence. I hope we shall
long continue to smoke in friendship together.—
To Brother John Baptist de Coigne. Washington ed. viii, 172.
(1781)