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beardlefs Indians of Peru, drefled in feathers from 

 head to foot, ftroUing about undifmayed, in our 

 pubHc fquares, around the flatues of our Kings, 

 mingled with ftarely Spaniards, in whifkers, and 

 fhort-cloaks. It would give me pleafure to fee 

 the Dutch making a fettlement on the thirfty 

 ridges of Montmartre ; and, following the bent of 

 their hydraulic inchnation, like the beavers, find 

 the means of there conftrufting canals filled with 

 ■water; while the inhabitants of the banks of the 

 Oroonoko (liould live comfortably dry, fufpended 

 over the lands inundated by the Seine, amidft the 

 foliage of willows and alder-trees. 



I could wifh that Paris were as large, and of â 

 population as much diverfified as thofe ancient ci- 

 ties of Afia, fuch as Nineveh and Saza, v/hofe ex- 

 tent was fo vaft, that it required three days to 

 make the tour of them, and in which /jhafuertis 

 beheld two hundred Nations bending; before his 

 throne. I could wilh that every people on the 

 face of the Earth kept up a correfpondence with 

 that ^ity, as the members with the heart in the 

 human body. What fecrets did the Afiatics pof- 

 fefs, to raife cities fo vafl: and fo populous ? They 

 are, in all refpeds, our elder brothers. They per- 

 mitted all Nations to fettle anions; them. Prefent 

 men with liberty and happinefs, and you will a:- 

 trad them from the ends of the Earth, 



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