NORTHERN OCEAN. 
| ed on thofe occafions as dreams and delufions. 
| Thefe tranformations were foon produdtive of 
| the confequences which at prefent generally fol- 
| Jow fuch intimate connexions between the two 
| fexes, and the mother of the world began to ad- 
| vance in her pregnancy. 
Not long after this happened, a man of fuch a 
| furprifing height that his head reached up to the 
clouds, came to level the land, which at that time 
Was a very rude mafs; and after he had done 
this, by the help of his walking-{tick he marked 
out all the lakes, ponds, and rivers, and immedi- 
| ately caufed them to be filled with water. He 
| then took the dog, and tore it to pieces; the guts 
he threw into the lakes and rivers, commanding 
| them to become the different kinds of fifth; the 
| flefh he difperfed over the Jand, commanding it 
to become different kinds of beafts and land-ani- 
mals; the fkin he alfo tore in {mall pieces, and 
threw it into the air, commanding it to become 
all kinds of birds; after which he gave the wo- 
man and her offspring full power to kill, eat, and 
never {pare, for that he had commanded them to 
multiply for her ufe in abundance. After this 
injunction, he returned to the place whence he 
came, and has not been heard of fince. 
_ Reticion has not as yet begun to dawn among 
the Northern Indians; for though their conju- 
rors do indeed fing fongs, and make long {peech- 
es, to fome beafts and birds of prey, as alfo to 
imaginary beings, which they fay aflift them in 
performing 
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