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confequently, that it is in fubftance the 

 language of the firfl planters of the Bri- 

 tifli Ifle. 



Now, if it only appear, that the fame 

 people continued in a conflant uninter- 

 rupted fucce'fion, from the firfl planting 

 of this nation to the prefent day, it fol- 

 lows, that the fame language thefe peo- 

 ple ufed, (being fo good and exprelfive 

 as this language is) muft continue here 

 as uninterrupted as the people whofe lan- 

 guage it was: for no reafon can be 

 given why, by what means, and in what 

 periods of time, this fame language, the 

 fame people continuing, fhould be ex- 

 terminated, or utterly ceafe and perifii. 

 It is true, that new people generally 

 do introduce new languages, or very 

 much corrupt and alter the old; but 

 here we have no fuch thing. There are 

 no records, no authentic marks of anti- 

 quity, to {hew us, that amidft the vari- 

 ous 



