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red-hot, and throw them into the wuter contained 

 in the wooden vafe, till it acquires the degree of 

 heat which they willi to give it. They alfo know 

 how to kindle fire without making ufe either 

 offteel or of flint, by the fridion of the wood 

 of the ivy and of the laurel. The qualities of their 

 heart are ftiil fuperior to thofe of their under- 

 ftanding. They are extremely hofpitable. He 

 who has little, divides that little, cheerfully, with 

 him who has nothing. They are fo paffionately 

 fond of their children, that they never treat them 

 unkindly. They are contented with bringing 

 them back to a fenfe of their duty by remonftrance. 

 The refult from this condud is, that, at all times, 

 the moft tender affedion unites all the members 

 of their families, and that the young people there 

 liften, with the greateft refped, to the counfels of 

 aged. 



Neverthelef?, this People would be fpeedily de- 

 ftroyed by the tyranny of it's Chieftains, did they 

 not oppofe their own paffions to themfelves. When 

 quarrels arife among the Nobility, they are fo 

 much under the perfualion that arms muft decide 

 the controverfy, and that reafon has no voice in 

 the decihon, that they are obliged, in order to me- 

 rit popular efteem, to follow up their refcntments 

 to the death. This vulgar prejudice is fatal to a 

 great number of the larlcs. On the other hand, 



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