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IC.781.021
2 Aug 1781:21,22 (13/906 [=707])
From the London Courant, January, 1781. The slaughter
committed by the Tories and Savages in North-America, can
only be matched by a story of Scotch barbarity committed on
their own countrymen, related in Dr. Johnson's tour through
the Hebrides. . . [1 column relating vicious things done to
Americans and their possessions. Near bottom:]
"The custom of burning people alive in towns, villages,
houses, and barracks, is now become so familiar to the
British soldiers in North-America, that it raises no wonder
in those who read of such uncommon acts of such savage
brutality. This is a practice of which I never read before
these accounts of American conflagrations, except in Dr.
Johnson's tour through the Hebrides, where he relates the
history of one clan shutting up another in a church, and
setting it on fire; while the piper played a particular
tune, which is handed down to late posterity, in
commemoration of this glorious victory." . . .
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