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oblic^in^, tender, and humane : that they are inclined to 

 be gav'.nd cheerful, timorous and modeft ; and that 

 they /o not hefitate, like men, to perform a generou. 

 aaion. Not haughty, not arrogant, not fupercihous, 

 hey are Ml of courtefy, and fond of focxety : more 

 liable in general, to err than man ; but m general,. 

 S more 'virtuous, and performing -re good ad.ons 

 than he. To a woman, whether civilized or lavage, I 

 neve -^refTed myfelf in the language of decency and 

 Jriendlhip, without receiving a decent and friendly an- 

 fwer. With man it has often been ^'^f-^^lf^^ 

 In wandering through the barren plams of mhojpitable 

 ^Vn^k tlu-ough \onefi S^eAen ..^fro.en Laplar^d^^ 

 rude and churUJh Findland, unpnnapkd Ruffia, and 

 the wide fpread regions of the wandering Tartar, it 

 hungry, dry, cold, wet, or fick, the women have ever 

 Sfr'i^ndl'y'to me, ^-.i uniformly fo^ and to add to this 

 virtue, Cfo worthy the appellation of benevolence) their 

 Slonshave bee'n performed in fo free and o kind 

 a manner, that if I was dry, I drank the fweeteft 

 draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarfe morfal with 



adouble relifli." . , jv -.,^1,7 rlnf 



What a beautiful eulogium ! and how juftly due. 

 Thefe friendly offices were performed to our fufFenng 

 Sanger wit/out the fmalleft profped of any return 

 ta h im: But I ought to add, they were performed 

 to one who felt their value, and who .rj^^f^^^^ 

 mildnefs of that tender hand which adminiftred them , 

 and who no doubt expreffed in thofe native tones and 

 geftures, which conftitutes an univerfal language among 

 all mankind, the fen fe he ^nt^^^ained of it with irre- 

 fiftible propriety.. To the haughty, the fupercilious 

 or the vain, fuch tendemefs could not have been exert- 

 ed Half the ills that man fufFers from his fellow crea- 

 tu;es, are owing to himfelf ; and it is his ovv^ mmd 

 alone that can fuperadd the balm of beneficence, to the 

 tendernefs of kindnefs. 



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