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the great Room of the Gods, where they would 

 be fure to eat Bear Bacon and fmoak Tobacco e- 

 ternally. Pray what European with his fineft Parts 

 improved by Books could have faid more to the 

 purpofe ? His Complements indeed might have 

 been couched in politer terms ? 



To conclude : I have read moft of the Hifto- 

 ries that have been wrote about the New World, 

 viz. America^ and do highly blame our Fore- 

 fathers (be they EngUjlj^ French^ Spaniards^ Dutch ^ -^^ 

 or Portugucze) for fetling Colonies there, contra- 

 ry to the inclinations of the Natives : In fhort ^ 

 King Fowhatan^ King Oppeca?2canoughy and other 

 Princes who lived near James Town in Virginia^ 

 behaved gallantly enough in attempting to pre- 

 vent our Countrymen from getting footing there : 

 and though they did not fucceed in fo laudable an 

 Enterprize 5 yet they have immortalized their 

 Names with more real luftre than did Alexander 

 the Macedonian^ and other fuch Tyrants. The 

 lame Encomium may juftly be given of all other 

 America?! Chiefs who bravely oppofed us Euro^ 

 pean Invaders. But then, Dear Friend, it muft 

 be owned, that we Chriftians, who ought to imi- 

 tate the meek and humble JefuSy do in this re- 

 fped:, behave full as badly if not worfe than Pa- 

 gans who have no Gofpel Light to walk by : For 

 enlarging their Power and Territories (at all ad- 

 ventures) feems to be the principal concern of 



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